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"People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time."
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Source: Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.80, Grove Press
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