"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
~ Jack Kerouac ~












Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
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