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“I asked him for a bedtime story. I didn’t really want a story, I just wanted him to talk to me. He couldn’t think of anything. When I woke up he was gone but there was a letter on my bed that began, “So, you wanted a bedtime story….” quote by Eula Biss — Download Open image

““I asked him for a bedtime story. I didn’t really want a story, I just wanted him to talk to me. He couldn’t think of anything. When I woke up he was gone but there was a letter on my bed that began, “So, you wanted a bedtime story….””

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