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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Eudora Welty
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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