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"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia... read more
First Sentence
SHE WAS VERY PRETTY but all she cared about was horses and dancing'
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- Doris Lessing (Author)
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