[art: Edmund Dulac whose fairy tale books I inherited from my English grandmother]
My mother could make me anything I wanted to be. As a child she transformed me into a swan, a mermaid, a white Persian cat dressed like an elegant Victorian lady with a pork-pie hat and a ruffled bustle to accentuate my tail.
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