Dear Mother - The Paris Review

In the second half of the seventies, when I was in my twenties, I wrote letters home to Ireland from Barcelona.Early in 1976, for example, from my pension on the corner of Carrer de la Portaferrissa and Carrer del Pi, I described my first visit to the Liceu opera house.Dear Mother,
The walls in this small, cheap hotel are thin.

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