Quotation
Angela’s mother was a pure Irish woman — mean, bitter and stubborn as all hell. She called herself a displaced Irishwoman.
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Most of her money went on clothes. The most basic lesson she learned was that if you wore a short skirt, killer heels and a tight top, guys went ape.
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When she threw her Mom’s ashes into the Foyle there was a wind, of course, and most of her mother flew back into her hair. When she told the old guy at the hotel desk what had happened he said, “Tis proof, darling, that the dead are always with us.”