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Elspeth Huxley

“...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.”

Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
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