I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
Katherine MansfieldAbout author
- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: new zealander
- Born: October 14, 1888
- Died: January 9, 1923
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