Wandering_Words
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There’d been a moment, looking into Townes’ eyes in that Moscow hotel room. He’d been telling her, shyly, about a man back home, who’d been slightly baffled at his insistence at chasing a college chess opponent halfway around the world.
Townes had taken a sip from his cup and his hand was so warm and comforting around hers that it slipped out.
“There’s a girl back home in Kentucky,” she’d said.
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Beth returns to Lexington after Moscow to find her house warm and lit up, Jolene and her crooked smile waiting in the doorway.
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08 Mar 2021
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“What was it Tolstoy had written?
“If they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would have just looked into each other’s eyes and———“
You would have said—”
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Valerie leaves seven letters at the breakfast table before turning her back on Nonnatus House for good. Only one contains her forwarding address.
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22 Dec 2020
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‘Nurse Franklin?’ he says, one hand on the door. She can’t, he thinks, she can’t be here to stay.
‘It’s Trixie, please,’ she says, and she steps forward into the doorway. ‘I’m going to be looking after you.’
- when the rest of his family go on holiday, Tim finds himself being looked after by one of Poplar’s finest midwives - but Trixie’s hiding secrets and Tim wants to get to the bottom of it.
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22 Dec 2020