What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back in…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours? ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). The Great Gatsby, p.84, Atlântico Press
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