I can only hold on to the things I want to lose. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foe…

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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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