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But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?

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• But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
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  • Grief