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i too have a story to tell. once upon a time we were a family, my mother and father, my sister and i- not a happy family nor an unhappy one, but just a family that pootled along while children grew up and parents grew old. i remember a time when my sister and i loved each other, and my father and i loved each other. i was the little girl with plaited hair gripping a stripy cat, whose photo stands on the mantle piece... it is time, i think, to find out the whole story, and to tell it my own way. -Lewycka