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American Rapture

by C.J. Leede (Goodreads Author)

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― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
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