In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. (Alice Munro)

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Alice Munro

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