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David Mitchell, Ghostwritten Quotes: But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.
         

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.


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