In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.
("The Thirteenth Tale")
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A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.Diane Setterfield
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
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I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of trucks, gets up to all kinds of things while we ourselves are slumbering in a white zone that looks for all the world like inattention to the onlooker.
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But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
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In the background is the hiss of the gas heater; we hear the sound without hearing it for, side by side, together and miles apart, we are deep in our books.
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