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The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

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The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring hims...more

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Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.