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...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched...

Katherine Anne Porter

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Katherine Anne Porter (15 May 1890 – 18 September 1980) was a celebrated American journalist, essayist, short story writer and novelist.

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Alternative Names: Callie Russell Porter

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Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons and James Joyce’s Dubliners.

Shut your eyes,” said Miss Tanner.
“Oh no,” said Miranda, “for then I see worse things…

An unbalanced savagely individualist people,” said Father Garza, “with their weird untraceable language and their pagan Catholicism … what would one expect? His name was Etchegaray,” he pronounced, rolling the word with sensuous pleasure.

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