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“What good is my truth? My truth means nothing. What if this guy with the gun comes from a planet in a whole different solar system? What we call rain he calls soap. What we call apples he calls rain. So what am I supposed to tell him?” “His name is Frank J. Smalley and he comes from St. Louis.” quote by Don DeLillo — Download Open image

““What good is my truth? My truth means nothing. What if this guy with the gun comes from a planet in a whole different solar system? What we call rain he calls soap. What we call apples he calls rain. So what am I supposed to tell him?” “His name is Frank J. Smalley and he comes from St. Louis.””

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