You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Someti…

Margaret Atwood
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You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1989). Cat's Eye, Bantam
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You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1989). Cat's Eye, Bantam

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