The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same rea…

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The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2013). The Storyteller, p.164, Simon and Schuster
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