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Alone Quote by Jean Rhys

“Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand…How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss…” quote by Jean Rhys — Download Open image

““Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand…How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss…””

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