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Quote of the Week:

"...Childhood was a sort of gulag for me; I was cut off, adrift. Conditions changed from year to year; sometimes I moved to another camp, where I waited to see if the regime would be better or worse, more or less survivable, and where I scrambled quickly to learn the rules. It wasn't particularly anyone's fault. Few people acted with malice toward me. It was just that I was unsuited to being a child."


--HILARY MANTEL, "Giving Up the Ghost"