An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his…

Marcel Proust
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An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. If only, she wrote, you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back. ✨ Marcel Proust (1982). Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Vintage
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An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. If only, she wrote, you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back. ✨ Marcel Proust (1982). Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Vintage

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