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“Her handwriting in these pencilled jottings, made forty-five years ago, is exactly as it is today: this makes me suspect, when I am not with her, that she is a closet intellectual.”
In the title story Postcards from Surfers.
Garner describing her mother.
Postcards from Surfers (1985)
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