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I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted – and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.
– Mary Ann Shaffer

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