And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with ano…

Cormac McCarthy
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Road, p.234, Pan Macmillan
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Road, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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