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Jean Stafford: . . ....

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. . . as she moved from table to table, endeavoring to understand the [gambling] games, she realized that either her memory was at fault or Hollywood had carelessly added an apocryphal glitter and subtracted an essential gloom.

Source: The Children's Game in The Innocents Abroad, from The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, 1969.
-- Jean Stafford, (Jul 1 1915-1979), US short-story writer, novelist; She is noted for her deft development of fictional characters, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford 1969.


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