He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. H…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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