Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like wha…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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