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Wednesday, 20 March 2024

It Reminded Me



        The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks and was fixed and forced. I'd seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that i was going to grow old and die.

Ross MacDonald
Moving Target
1949

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