"Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rai...

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
~ Haruki Murakami ~












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