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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. (Summary by Peter Dann)]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>27537</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9afe494f788be815bc47c0e0f0014964.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Great Gatsby (version 4)-F. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. (Summary by Peter Dann)]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>26176</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9afe494f788be815bc47c0e0f0014964.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Great Gatsby (Version 3)-F. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. (Summary by Peter Dann)]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>35441</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9afe494f788be815bc47c0e0f0014964.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Running Water-A. E. W. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. 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