This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine ca…

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This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all. ✨ John Irving (2016). Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all. ✨ John Irving (2016). Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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