Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at ho…

Jim Butcher
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Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't. ✨ Jim Butcher (2000). Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files, p.175, Penguin Group
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Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't. ✨ Jim Butcher (2000). Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files, p.175, Penguin Group

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