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She had made the mistake of sleeping with him one night in a moment of weakness. Working until late each night, her guard down, her heart overwhelmed by an emptiness she could not name . .
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Raymond Williams
“The chapels are for people to meet, and to talk to each other or sing together. Around them, as you know, moves almost the whole life of the village. That, really, is their religion.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

Raymond Williams
“The visitor sees beauty; the inhabitant a place where he works and has his friends.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

Raymond Williams
“When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

Raymond Williams
“For here was the station, by the asylum: both on the outskirts, where the Victorians thought they belonged.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

Raymond Williams
“When you’re young,’ Harry said, ‘you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

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