"Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of time, because it exists so clearly and it does no...

Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.
~ Jeanette Winterson ~












Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.
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