Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a lit…

Ann Patchett
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong. ✨ Ann Patchett (2008). What Now?, Harpercollins
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

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