She said, Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don'…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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She said, Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need? I said, It depends on what it means to need. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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She said, Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need? I said, It depends on what it means to need. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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