...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so eve…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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