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Melissa Kite’s inventory of life (the ex-boyfriends’ possessions they left behind)

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

Emmylou Harris and the McGarrigle sisters wrote a song called ‘All I left Behind’. My version is called ‘All They Left Behind’ and is a sort of inventory of my life, according to the items left in my flat when relationships have ended. Tea cups from Tim, a coffee bean grinder from Jim, T-shirts from Francesco, and a goose-down pillow from Ed.

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