"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
~ Cormac McCarthy ~












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