So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl…

Virginia Woolf
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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball ✨ To the Lighthouse (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13
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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball ✨ To the Lighthouse (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

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