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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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Manchester
England
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Bridge
Bridges
Metaphor
Meeting
Meetings
Possibility

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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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