Frances Stonor Saunders is the author of Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War and The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, among other books.
road to left – don’t take.another road to left – don’t take.– between the two left roads there should be a footpath up to the right.Zigzag path.Keep to left – steep drop on right.
Directions for a walk, written by my father
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