“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

—  Mary E. Pearson, book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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