From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious …

Ian Mcewan
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From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. ✨ Atonement. Book by Ian Mcewan, www.sfgate.com. 2001.
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