All it takes to transform me is the warmth of the first rays of the summer sun
I am going to put my nose in lilac and honeysuckle and roses and be generally unbearable with luxuriousness.
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Hannah Rose Woods
Hannah Rose Woods is a cultural historian and the author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain.
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