Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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