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Although Mr Portillo has never embellished his original confession, he has woven this part of his biography into a tedious narrative of personal self-discovery.

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She reveals that unpublished novels, written when she was very young, may exist somewhere in a Texas archive: useful one day for thesis or biography hunters, but not, if her self-mocking summaries are anything to go by, yet more treasures-in-waiting.

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