but you can’t bottle everything up inside. If something needs saying, I say it, no matter what anyone thinks.’ Perhaps I should have felt offended for all the men on earth, but in truth I was delighted that Anna and Ingrid were now treating me as part of their sisterhood, someone they could say whatever they liked to. I asked Anna how long she had been single, and she said nineteen years. She was standing on a chair filling a cupboard and declared that she still had ‘admirers’. ‘The trouble is, they aren’t exactly top quality.’ They were, I learnt, all over eighty years old, and, as she put
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