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I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

Nina Bawden
Mother, Made Up Stories, Serial Killer
Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.
I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.