I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who sta…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays? ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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