I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because t…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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