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Reading from The Crossing
Manjeet reads an extract from her novel.
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    Reading from The Crossing
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  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
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    Question and Answer - Part 2
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    A reading from Elizabeth
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    The importance of libraries
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