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Jonathan Safran Foer
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She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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