I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, t…

Margaret Atwood
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I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1986). The Handmaid's Tale, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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