“I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth,” she…

“I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth,” she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn’t have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

Sourced, Still Life with Woodpecker
(1980)

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