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Posted by Ace on October 14th, 2009 filed in quotes“…And suddenly, for no reason, she told this strange woman about her endless journeys from her mother’s tiny flat with its smell of face powder and curry from the take-away downstairs, and the tights dripping in the bathroom, to her father’s cold, tidy, solemn house with its ticking grandfather clock. And about the silly dreams she’d had of bringing them together and the hopelessness of it all.
‘Do you think there might be a third place? Not my father’s house or my mother’s apartment but somewhere else- by the sea perhaps? And that one day I might find it?’
She drew back, suddenly frightened, because the fierce aunt was looking at her far too intently.
But Aunt Etta was nodding. ‘Of course,’ she said. ‘Of course there is a third place. There is one for everybody. But it’s no good filling it up with people from your old life. If you want to find the third place, you must find it alone.'”