Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be o…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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