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'Course I care. I always care. But there's no point in making a song and dance about it, like that night he stayed here. Know something? There's only one thing that'll bring 'em back, and that's indifference. The one thing you can't fake.'

— Helen Garner The Children's Bach (1984)

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'At the moment I might be. But as soon as it stops being faked and starts being real, he'll turn up. Rule number one of modern life.' | Page 80.

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