the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille. (Jeanette Winterson)

the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille.

Jeanette Winterson

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