“… I must admit, if it hadn't been for the encounter on the stairs, i probably wouldn't have taken the interest I did in Tommy's problems over the next several weeks.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro , book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 2, p. 14

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