"I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerles...
Her words didn’t have the acrid smell of death.
~ Haruki Murakami ~
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Her words didn’t have the acrid smell of death.
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