"And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them

I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.
~ Paulo Coelho ~












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