Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of sing…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)
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