I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and van…

Jeanette Winterson
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I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2013). The World And Other Places, p.108, Random House
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