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    A Quintessential Letting
    A Quintessential Letting
    A Quintessential Letting
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    A Quintessential Letting

    By I.S Tapler

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    A strange tale about an old man who regales an estate agent with the very particular history of his singular residence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherI.S Tapler
    Release dateFeb 29, 2012
    ISBN9781465817723
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      A Quintessential Letting - I.S Tapler

      A Quintessential Letting

      I.S. Tapler

      Copyright 2012 by I.S. Tapler

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      It is indeed strange how one always returns to the place where one has felt most. Or, if not with the wherewithal for such a return in all its honest splendour, how one manifestly cocoons oneself in an elaborate fantasy of such devices as to fool the senses into believing in the trick at one remove. But stop me, I am laughing at myself again. Laughing at myself here, now, when all around me roam the shadows of my youth, dancing in

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