as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were wh…

Charles Bukowski
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as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems, p.6, Zondervan
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as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems, p.6, Zondervan

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