Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingl…

Michael Cunningham
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.165, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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