We all move uneasily within our restraints. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (20…

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We all move uneasily within our restraints. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.69, Pan Macmillan
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We all move uneasily within our restraints. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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