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Tessa Hadley: “Free Love”

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Free Love - The Mirrors in the Book

It's so interesting what you're talking about, and what i'm writing about, it did happen in the sixties. It happened to a small circle of magically initiated people. A few are distint guished few. And it kind of took till i was 15 and 16 for it to begin spreading out across britain into tean ages,. bedrooms everywhere, and youth clubs everywhere. You know, mirroring seems to be a peculiar sub subject of this novel. Did you design this intentionally? Because first time we see phyllis, she's sitting in front of a mirror. Later, someone has a pocket mirror that he takes out to look at his eyes.

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