The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, th…

Ian Mcewan
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ✨ Ian McEwan (2010). Atonement, p.76, Random House
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