Sometimes, language is the sound of longing — Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing — Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing — Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing — Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing — Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
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Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
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