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Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason I know about. . . . Then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined , to excuse what they have become. lillian hellman, Pentimento F Here was a reality more powerful than the present. james still, found among his notes on this manuscript ...

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