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find a way of making the past okay, appropriate and liveable (lines 8,9). It feels as if the past was
none of these things and perhaps the agony is that she cannot change the past and make it better.
However she does recognize some kind of loss (line 10) in childhood as if she gains some
understanding of what she did not have. She ends by commenting on the counsellor and it feels
important that the counsellor is „not a book‟ but human (line11). This perhaps refers back to the
„bad‟ counsellor and suggests that she may have felt like a book and possibly therefore inhuman.
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