Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’…

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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. ✨ Stephen King (1999). Hearts In Atlantis, p.306, Simon and Schuster
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Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. ✨ Stephen King (1999). Hearts In Atlantis, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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