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It was the first time that Gloria had been shocked out of her autonomous inner life. She lived at the bottom of a deep pool where her mother and the rest of the world were only seen as vague shadows on the surface.
Now she was being forced into a graceless breaststroke to find out what everyone else was talking about.

It was perhaps this book alone that had saved Gloria from becoming a complete emotional invertebrate.