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Kew Gardens
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Kenny
"Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees…one's happiness, one's reality?"

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Kew Gardens is a beautifully, charming story from Virginia Woolf. With several edits it could easily fit within Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway or her Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence.

Woolf, once more, revisits her favorite themes of passion, desire, love, and regret;
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