To want is to have a weakness. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1986). The Handmaid'…

Margaret Atwood
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To want is to have a weakness. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1986). The Handmaid's Tale, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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To want is to have a weakness. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1986). The Handmaid's Tale, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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