Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized. ✨ A…

Ann Patchett
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized. ✨ Ann Patchett (2012). Run, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing
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