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“
Memories. They are like matryoshka dolls, yes?"
[Lily] looked at Mr. Martin again, brows knit. "What kind of dolls?"
He cupped his hands, then brought them closer together. "They...nest. Nesting dolls? You know them by this name, perhaps?"
"Oh! Yes, of course. ...Memories /are/ like that, to be sure. As soon as you peek at one, another reveals itself, and then another.
...more
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― A Portrait of Loyalty
― A Portrait of Loyalty
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Over and over again, gazing at what seemed random in the world, Elizebeth founda tiny spot of sense, and then she stood on that spot and invented a system to transform the rest of the landscape all the way out to the horizon, and this is still the process today.
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― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
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