We walked to the marketplace at the end of Biblioteksgatan, where the hostage drama that shook all of Sweden and gave rise to the concept of Stockholm syndrome had been enacted some time in the innocent 1970s, and we followed one of the back streets up to the NK where we were going to do our food shopping this evening.

- My Struggle Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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"You reek of alcohol," she said, wriggling free. "How could you do that to me? Today of all days?"
"I'm sorry", I said. "But it's no big deal, is it?"
She didn't answer, began to walk. Didn't say a word as we left the station. On the escalator up to Klarabergsviadukten she started to swear at me. She shook the door to the drugstore at the top, but it was Sunday and was closed. We continued down to the drugstore on the other side of NK. She was furious the whole way. I walked beside her like a dog...

- My Struggle Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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It was the most bourgeois apartment I had ever seen. An enormous Russian-style stove from the previous century at one end of the room, with a massive marble front; another one, just as tall, slightly less massive, in the bedroom. White, beautifully carved panels on all the walls, stuccowork on the ceilings, which were more than four meters tall. Fantastic herringbone parquet floors from the end of the nineteenth century. Her mother's furniture was in the same style: heavy, artistic, late nineteenth century.
"Can we live here?" I said as we walked around looking.

- My Struggle Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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...First of all, I read the address, Brännkyrkagatan 92, there was something familiar about it, I had seen it somewhere, but where? Where? I wondered, scanning the list of names.
Oh, fuck it.
Linda Boström, it said.
A chill ran down my spine.

- My Struggle Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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The Dalton School is a prestigious college prep school in the Ivy Preparatory School League. Founded in 1918 by Helen Parkhurst (a contemporary and colleague of Maria Montessori), Dalton was established as an "educational model that captured the progressive spirit of the age." (from wiki)

Notable folks that have attended the Dalton School include science-fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, actors Chevy Chase, Christian Slater and Claire Danes.

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