Free It Will End with Us by Sam Savage Page B

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    I think my mother really was extravagant, and it was this, her artist’s soul, as she would have called it, that undid her finally.
    She saw the sky reflected in the window glass and flew into it.
    I have now come to a point beyond which I think there is no point going on, no further points of any significance, I mean, to get to and stand on and feel that I have arrived somewhere. I don’t know where time has gone.

 
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    SAM SAVAGE is the best-selling author of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, The Cry