“It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.”

—  Jonathan Tropper

This Is Where I Leave You (2009), 2014-January-15 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/This_Is_Where_I_Leave_You.html?id=3jVps2Z9LQcC, <br class="br">Source: This is Where I Leave You

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