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Like many vivid memories, his recollection of strolling towards Turville Heath with Florence created a penumbra of oblivion around it (Ian McEwan)

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Like many vivid memories, his recollection of strolling towards Turville Heath with Florence created a penumbra of oblivion around it.

Ian McEwan (in On Chesil Beach)

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