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“Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for the re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.” quote by Charles Yu — Download Open image

““Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for the re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.””

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