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It was in my final year in the university when I was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the lymph nodes.

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My mom used to yell at me when I was 5. I constantly chased my dogs around the home.

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42. [To Minze Eisner] “Perhaps I will go to Meran after all, or else to the moon, where there is no air at all and where the lungs can take a rest.” (Prague, February, 1920)

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Mansfield fled to London again two years later, and would spend the rest of her life in Europe. As Joyce has suggested, a place is best written about once you’ve left it, and New Zealand and its environs remained a focus of her work, a way to come to grips with a heritage –– analyze it, critique it, memorialize it –– without having to perpetuate it.