Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love? ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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