The Thirteenth Tale

In memory

Ivy Dora and Fred Harold Morris

Corina Ethel and Ambrose Charles Setterfield

All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

– VIDA WINTER, TALES OF CHANGE AND DESPERATION