It is not fashionable ...

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one\'s mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
 Colum McCann

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