What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I clos…

Haruki Murakami
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What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
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