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Carol
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The late sixties were an age of equality and people were not supposed to worry about their accents, but they did worry, and tried to adapt their voices — otherwise they found themselves treated with conscious cheeriness, as if they were bereaved or slightly deformed.
— Aug 19, 2026 04:21PM
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Carol
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After his day’s work he would drive up in the evil car, and when he came up the steps and through the front door, my father would melt away to his shadowy evening pursuits. Jack had sunburned skin and muscles beneath his shirt. He was your definition of a man, if a man was what caused alarm and shattered the peace.
— Aug 19, 2026 03:52PM
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Carol
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I liked the idea of fidelity. Though I had no idea what it implied.
— Aug 18, 2026 05:37PM
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Carol
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People I met had an innocence, an openness, that was quite foreign to my own nature; or if once it had been native to me, then I had lost it long ago in the evening fogs, in the four o’clock darks, abandoned it in the gardens between the straggling fences and tussocks of grass.
— Aug 16, 2026 05:25PM
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Carol
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For Bob’s fences were not secure. They were elaborate, they were refined, you might say they were highly strung, though this is a strange word to apply to a fence. They were like Stendhal on the shelves of the village library: impressive, but not adapted for any purpose we could discern.
— Aug 14, 2026 07:45PM
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Carol
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My father had disappeared. Perhaps it was his presence, long and pallid, which slid behind the door in sweeps of draft and raised the hackles on the terrier’s neck.
— Aug 14, 2026 07:38PM
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Like many of the local people, my ancestors had come from Ireland to get work, and though by the time I was alive there was no actual fighting in the streets, the first thing you learned about anyone was their religion. The morals of the Roman Catholic minority were scrutinized from the pulpit, and we all, Protestant and Catholic alike, were policed by gossip.
— Aug 14, 2026 07:32PM
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