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What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?
What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?
Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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- Colson Whitehead
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- Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1969; activity date not established; Wikidata Q509662, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q509662 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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