all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scoo…

Sue Monk Kidd
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all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me. ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2006). The Mermaid Chair, p.31, Penguin
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all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me. ✨ Sue Monk Kidd (2006). The Mermaid Chair, p.31, Penguin

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