When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the littl…

Alexander Gordon Smith
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When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms. ✨ Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown, p.57, Faber & Faber
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