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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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