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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
Littles
Daydreaming
Little
Seemed
Always
Worse
Cost
Return
Moment
Moments
Realignment
Dream
Oblivious

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