I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it. (Alice Sebold)

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

Alice Sebold

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