“…he had the sense that they were both lonely, albeit in different ways. He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Dawson Cole, Chapter 5, p. 78
2009, The Best of Me (2011)

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