Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever…

Raymond Carver
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Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said. ✨ Raymond Carver (2016). Cathedral, p.24, Random House
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Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said. ✨ Raymond Carver (2016). Cathedral, p.24, Random House

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