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“Sitting on the terrace, wrapped in the whiteness of her dress, she felt what all women dressed in white must feel on a beautiful day - she felt transparent and impersonal like the day itself, surrounded by crowds of flowers awaiting her.”

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Book:Thus Were Their Faces
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