Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left … - Helene Hanff

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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Helene Hanff

Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

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