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Saturday 28 November 2015

Seen Such Smiles


         The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks was fixed and forced.  I'd seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that i was going to grow old and die.

Ross MacDonald
Moving Target
1949

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