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“All this time, I realise, I've lived like my departure was temporary, your words preventing me from ever really leaving or arriving [...] I've held onto the idea of us, scanning faces for a scrap of something known, searching for the familiar in the alien. When really, the familiar had already turned alien, and home had ceased being home. Both have gone on living and changing without me.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark