[Papà] is such a stick in the mud whenever I try to find myself a new mother. He’ll tell me again about how swans mate for life, and his mate is dead, and he will mourn her FOREVER. I looked it up once and showed him from one of his own books that swans will, in fact, find new mates if their first one dies, but he insisted he’s not That Type of Swan.

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image text: In the evenings, Raymond has been unusually chatty, and I listen whilst he expounds on, say, the comparative visual merits of every butterfly known to inhabit southern England—in alphabetical order, which pleases me. And I don’t mind listening. In fact, I find it a soothing accompaniment to my unravelling and untangling the black wool, the wool still in my bag from Mauritz’s socks...

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