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    Freedom From The Past
    Freedom From The Past
    Freedom From The Past
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    Freedom From The Past

    By Clare Tanner

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    Lost opportunities from the past can drag us down and prevent us from enjoying the present and the future. Sometimes we have to revisit the past to escape from it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClare Tanner
    Release dateNov 22, 2011
    ISBN9781465818966
    Freedom From The Past
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    Clare Tanner

    Clare Tanner lives in West Berkshire, UK, where she belongs to a local Writers' Group. They have published four anthologies of short stories. "The Tranquillity Project" is Clare's first novel and she is currently working on her second.

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      Freedom From The Past - Clare Tanner

      Freedom from the past

      Clare Tanner

      Published by Clare Tanner at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Clare Tanner

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      Caroline felt tired and irritable. Teaching Year 7 about reproduction and personal responsibility had to be every teacher’s least favourite lesson. She ought to be used to it by now, but she could still hear the sniggers as she demonstrated how to put a condom onto a plastic phallus. The girls were the worst.

      She thought with no pleasure about the Friday night ahead of her. Solitude

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