I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you …

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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