That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the rig…

Raymond Carver
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That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose, p.102, Vintage
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