They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
-- Janet Frame
   
Janet Frame   Name:
Janet Frame
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
New Zealander
Birth:
August 28, 1924
Death:
January 29, 2004
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