Shrines of Gaiety
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Read between March 9 - June 10, 2023
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He had an enquiring mind. It was a curse. Even sometimes for a detective.
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For perhaps the first time in her life she was wearying of the relentless drive required to keep their lives thrusting forward.
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It felt as if a great weight had been removed from her, which it had, of course, because her mother was dead. Alleluia!
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Life was for absorbing, not recording. And in the end, it was all just paper that someone would have to dispose of after you were gone.
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Freda, who had had nothing but freedom, considered it to be an overrated concept.