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“... in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.” quote by Lee Martin — Download Open image

““... in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.””

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