From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things…

Tom Perrotta
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From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise. ✨ Tom Perrotta (2006). Joe College: A Novel, p.263, Macmillan
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From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise. ✨ Tom Perrotta (2006). Joe College: A Novel, p.263, Macmillan

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