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Death and the mother

Marion Halligan

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When Maria Laker in Paris received a letter from a friend at home, she was sitting at the breakfast table with a novel. It was Crime and Punishment; she was re-reading the Russians. Last time she'd been in her teens; she wanted to see if the decades had changed them, or her. She hoped the latter. So far she was immersed, couldn't put it down. Except for a letter from home...

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When Maria Laker in Paris received a letter from a friend at home, she was sitting at the breakfast table with a novel. It was Crime and Punishment; she was re-reading the Russians. Last time she'd been in her teens; she wanted to see if the decades had changed them, or her. She hoped the latter. So far she was immersed, couldn't put it down. Except for a letter from home...

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When Maria Laker in Paris received a letter from a friend at home, she was sitting at the breakfast table with a novel. It was Crime and Punishment; she was re-reading the Russians. Last time she'd been in her teens; she wanted to see if the decades had changed them, or her. She hoped the latter. So far she was immersed, couldn't put it down. Except for a letter from home...

Key concepts: Reading (process), Psychology, History, Political science, Law

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