You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You s…

Ray Bradbury
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You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. ✨ Ray Bradbury (2016). Fahrenheit 451, p.10, Hamilton Books
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You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. ✨ Ray Bradbury (2016). Fahrenheit 451, p.10, Hamilton Books

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