Bubbles Quote by Walter Kirn

“Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.”

Walter Kirn

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Bubbles Enough Heartbeat Lost Persons Sometimes Suffocating This world World

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