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“I was a student with a reputation for being clever… what did it prove? It proved how fruitful it had been to study with Lila and talk to her, to have her as a goad and support as I ventured into the world outside the neighbourhood, among the things and persons and landscapes and ideas of books…. my capacity to write beautiful sentences comes from me… but didnt my passion grow in the warmth of hers?”

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