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“While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.” quote by Ruth Rendell — Download Open image

“While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.”

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