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Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

 Jeanette Winterson
 

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She had never heard of mixed feelings. There were friends and there were enemies.
 
 
 
And so it was that on a particular day, some times later, she followed a star until it came to settle above an orphanage, and in that place was a crib, and in that crib, a child. A child with too much hair.
 
 
 
The salt beef of civilization rumbling round in the gut. Constipation was a great problem after the Second World War. Not enough roughage in the diet, too much refine food.
 
 
 
I love you almost as much as I love the Lord.
 
 
 
Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self. People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time.
 
 
 
 
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