Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because… — Margaret Atwood
Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both so obvious and so unthinkable.
We are using up the Earth. It is almost gone.
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