I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such troubl — Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such troubl — Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such troubl — Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such troubl — Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such troubl — Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
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I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such trouble for fractious, ungrateful me.

— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
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