What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocki…

Michael Cunningham
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What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.199, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.199, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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