I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a que…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me? ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me? ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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