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Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.
Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.
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Arundhati Roy

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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