Out-takes III

And she came with the grandmother story. I didn’t tell her that the grandmother story has been around for some time, that she was actually quoting something from a psychological seminar that has filtered down into urban myth. ‘They used to say to kids,’ she said. ‘They’d say, “Listen, your grandmother’s going to die soon [...]






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