The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says. (J. M. Coetzee)

The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

J. M. Coetzee

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