You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the…

John Steinbeck
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You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.163, Penguin
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You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.163, Penguin

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