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Perempuan Patah Hati yang Kembali Menemukan Cinta Melalui Mimpi

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“This is the dark part of the American story, the kind of thing we work to hide. Mobility means discomfort, because so much has to change; one can’t allow for the satisfactions of stasis: You prick yourself and move, digging spurs into your own hide to get going, forcing yourself to forget the comforts of the barn. In this country, we speak grandly of this metamorphosis, never stopping to consider that for many class travelers with passports stamped for new territory, the trip is nothing less than a bridge burning.”

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