"You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back, this thing you gave me as the star we were waiting for finally emerged.
~ Daniel Handler ~












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