It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much l…

Arundhati Roy
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It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things, p.16, Penguin Books India
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It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things, p.16, Penguin Books India

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