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“There used to be so many good times, when I was your age." She ran her finger slowly round and round her cup, as though it were a fine-stemmed wine glass rather than a chipped and stained dining-room survivor, as though she were trying to recapture an echo of times past.”

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Book:Upstairs In The Crazy House: The Life Of A Psychiatric Survivor

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