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Alena

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society’s most fundamental taboos, and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

The Correspondent

by Virginia Evans

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Alena’s Quotes

“What I did with his automobile was fairly dramatic and somewhat risky, but still a lot easier than finding a parking place on the Upper East Side.”
― Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case

tags: funny, parking

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“When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.”
― Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case

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“I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.”
― Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case

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