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The Lover's Fatal Identity Is Precisely This: I Am The One Who Waits.
-Roland Barthes
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The Lover's Fatal Identity Is Precisely This:
Roland Barthes
The Lover's Fatal Identity Is Precisely This: I Am The One Who Waits.
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