"There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to acco...

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.
~ John Steinbeck ~












And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I co...
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