Dec 29 2002

i turned the page and fell in love

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, seperating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prisim through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum,” Jonathan Safran Foer,Everything Is Illuminated

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Posted on Sun, 29 December 2002 at 9:10 pm

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