“He was more absorbed with the people around him, the couples and teenagers and solo film buffs having perfectly normal days. He’d had thousands of normal days himself. It seemed such an alien concept now, to have a normal day. To walk around oblivious, just participating in the world. It seemed unreasonable for anyone to be allowed a normal day.”
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Book:The Great Believers
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