I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to p…

Neil Gaiman
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I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions. ✨ Fragile Things. Book by Neil Gaiman, 2006.
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I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions. ✨ Fragile Things. Book by Neil Gaiman, 2006.

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