Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stac…

Toni Morrison
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Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why. ✨ Toni Morrison (1987). Sula
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