Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing afte…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle, McGraw-Hill Companies
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