Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would …

Isabel Allende
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Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia. ✨ Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition, p.36, University of Texas Press
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