I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they m…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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