She said Yap had also struck her with a wooden block, a broomstick, a clothes hanger and a toilet brush.

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And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor.

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