On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air an…

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On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew. ✨ Stephen King (2016). 11/22/63: A Novel, p.161, Simon and Schuster
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On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew. ✨ Stephen King (2016). 11/22/63: A Novel, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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