Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as i…

Margaret Atwood
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Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1988). Cat's eye, Doubleday, 1989
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Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1988). Cat's eye, Doubleday, 1989

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