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She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
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- Jack Kerouac
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
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- Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1922 to 1969; Wikidata Q160534, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160534 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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