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You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.110, Hamilton Books
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You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.110, Hamilton Books

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