Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destin…

Arthur Golden
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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day. ✨ Arthur Golden (2008). Memoirs Of A Geisha, p.294, Random House
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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day. ✨ Arthur Golden (2008). Memoirs Of A Geisha, p.294, Random House

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