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Tom Hanks som oplæser??? Øh ja tak!!!

To grow up with a mother who had run off to India, never to be heard from again, that was one thing - there was a closure in that, it’s own kind of death. But to find out she was fifteen stops away on the Number One train to Canal and had failed to be in touch was barbaric. Whatever romantic notions I might have harbored, whatever excuses or allowances my heart had ever made on her behalf, blew out like a match.

“”Mommy lost her mind because she was still thinking that this whole thing was going to resolve and I was going to be crushed to not have my own princess suite. She said ‘Maeve, get out of there. That doesn’t belong to you.’ But it did. I knew it did.”
“You knew it at the time?” I’d never been in the position of getting my head around what I’d been given. I only understood what I’d lost.”