"In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when som...

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
~ Erica Jong ~












Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indiffe...
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