Try to remember it always, he said once Gogol had reached him, leading…

Jhumpa Lahiri
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Try to remember it always, he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go. ✨ Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). The Namesake: A Novel, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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