She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to s…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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