So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd b…

Margaret Atwood
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So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2004). Oryx and Crake, p.252, Anchor
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So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2004). Oryx and Crake, p.252, Anchor

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