...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the o…

Pico Iyer
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...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down. ✨ Pico Iyer (2012). The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing
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...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down. ✨ Pico Iyer (2012). The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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