I wanted to see where she came from, prove to myself that she was real. I wanted to walk through her secret architecture, run my fingers over her wallpaper, see her curtains flutter in the breeze and believe, for a moment, that it was her
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― In a Sunburned Country
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― In a Sunburned Country
― In a Sunburned Country
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