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The Textiles and the Life of Anne
It's an amazing way to document a life and your experiences, isn't it? You know, there's so much less information here than you would get from a diary. But somehow it feels really tangible and really evocative in a way that maybe a diary isn't. It's that tactility, I think, of cloth. We can all think of clothes and textiles in our lives that would immediately bring back a memory of something really significant. And I think that's what she had. Although she doesn't write very much and really I had to kind of fill in the gaps quite often. So a lot of it is just filling in gaps of their social life and the path of
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