“This one is something a friend of mine said to me. "You have to...” – Leland P. Fitzgerald, The United States of Leland ... Movie Quotes Database

This one is something a friend of mine said to me. "You have to believe that life is more than the sum of its parts, kiddo." I remember it right now to the "kiddo" part. But when I think about what she said, the same thing always comes into my head. What if you can't put the pieces together in the first place?

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