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"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."

Carson McCullers, American Novelist

Existence, Nothing, Old, Song

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"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."

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