"It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, ...
Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.
~ Haruki Murakami ~
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Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.
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