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It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time.
It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time.
Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
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- Mark Haddon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1962; activity date not established; Wikidata Q356357, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356357 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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