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- From a remark by Gertrude Stein in Everybody's Autobiography, concerning the fact that her childhood home in California no longer existed.
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She took us to see her granddaughter who was teaching in the Dominican convent in San Raphael, we went across the bay on a ferry, that had not changed but Goat Island might just as well not have been there, anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
Submitted on July 07, 2010
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