Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health …

Toni Morrison
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Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving. ✨ Toni Morrison (1992). Jazz, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving. ✨ Toni Morrison (1992). Jazz, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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