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My dream of the perfect father — unrealized — possessed me, and has done so for the rest of my life. My marriage was but a continuation of it, and almost engulfed me.

Angelica Garnett

For you, this is only a story, neither short nor long — something to be read and then forgotten, or at best put away in some dusty corner of the mind, whether or not to be brought out again, only you can tell. But for me it was a real event, or series of events.

Angelica Garnett

Everyone has a certain difficulty in growing up, even my children, although I've been a good mother. I'm still not grown up in some ways compared with other people I know.

Angelica Garnett

Angelica Garnett

Angelica Garnett

Born: December 25, 1918

Died: May 4, 2012 (aged 93)

Bio: Angelica Vanessa Garnett, née Bell, was a British writer, painter and artist. She was the author of the memoir Deceived with Kindness, an account of her experience growing up at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group.

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