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When I was a child, just before my father left us, he gave me a large doll. She had rather an ugly face and stiff hair you couldn't brush, but I loved her. I held her in my arms all night and rubbed her plain face with cold cream. One hand was burnt away, black and brown and horrible. Sometimes I thought my mother had
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The following is from Barbara Comyns’s novel, 'The Juniper Tree'. Bella Winter works to remove herself from her cruel mother and harsh childhood, only to later struggle as a single mother without home or job. Barbara Comyns was an English novelist and artist. Her previous works include 'Sisters by a River', 'The Vet's Daughter', and 'Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's'. 
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