Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting…

Mark Helprin
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Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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