He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recove…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). The Great Gatsby, p.88, Oxford University Press
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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). The Great Gatsby, p.88, Oxford University Press

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