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Jeanette Winterson Quotes: I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.
         

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.


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