And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?
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Shel Silverstein41 quotes“And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?”
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