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My last quote is a humblebrag for sure, from an email in 2012 where I hyped up the Wild Flag album to him, and he replied:
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
He says life became more maneagable, once they knew for sure.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
"It looks like him, for sure," she said, showing coordinators a photograph of a smiling, middle-aged man.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Wilkinson argued that it was hard to know for sure what led to the disease—and quoted C+C Music Factory’s “Things that Make You Go Hmm” in her closing argument.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“We think maybe it was placed there for safekeeping. We’ll never know for sure, of course. The past is a lost country. You can only imagine it, like a dream.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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