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"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."

Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist

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"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."

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