This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw mat…

Michael Cunningham
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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. ✨ Michael Cunningham (2010). A Home at the End of the World: A Novel, p.106, Macmillan
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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. ✨ Michael Cunningham (2010). A Home at the End of the World: A Novel, p.106, Macmillan

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