It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger…

David Sedaris
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It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape. ✨ David Sedaris (2010). When You Are Engulfed In Flames, p.72, Hachette UK
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