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Quanta@quantaq·/-t2/stories·Nov 10

The Actor. Part II: PADMA

“There are times when I’m not even sure I have a real life… It’s only on the stage that I feel really alive. For a certain length of time I have to become a person whom I totally believe in.” - Maggie Smith

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    RionnaMorgan@rionnamorgan·16d

    "This was Padma’s secret, and she did not know it."
    Powerful secret!

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      OddWritings@oddwritings·Nov 16

      i love how you wrote "...when her father released his hold on her (wrist)." Those parentheses around wrist - it made me think. Her father has a hold on her. and he also has a hold on her wrist. and the parentheses around the word even look like two sides of one hand, holding something, just as I paused as i read that sentence - the parentheses have a hold on the reader, by causing the reader to pause, and think. very cool!

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        Edward Carpenter@ehcarpenter·Nov 15

        This is a very intense story... I am hoping there will be a happy ending for our Bahrupiya - but I know that is not the way that many stories end!

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