“i feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car& then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tiresi’m torn between the compulsion to run& the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass”
Koren Zailckas
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
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