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“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.” quote by Ian Mcewan — Download Open image

“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.”

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