Rachel

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romance‎ (43)
recs-for-jessica‎ (25)

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jersey‎ (1)

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Rachel’s Notes & Highlights

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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but they were not without their enemies, and occasionally people talked with horror of the number of books they had read.

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