Erin

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“No, it was I who felt envy. I read your pages and threw them in the wastebasket. I couldn’t bear that you were so good.” For a few moments I said nothing. How important that article had been to me, how much I had suffered. I couldn’t believe it: was it possible that Professor Galiani’s favorite had been so envious of the lines of a middle-school student that he threw them away? I felt that Nino was waiting for my reaction, but I didn’t know how to place such a petty act within the radiant aura I had given him as a girl.
The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4)
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