Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a s…

Cheryl Strayed
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Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, p.107, Atlantic Books Ltd
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