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John Steinbeck
The free LineBy puzzle for . The quote is scrambled into 20 tiles — swap them back into place.
Tap two tiles to swap them — or focus a tile and press Enter. A tile turns blue the moment it lands in the right place.
A Pulitzer and Nobel-winning American novelist wrote this reassurance to his son, who'd confided about a new crush at boarding school.
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Nothing good gets away.
- Published
- Category
- History
- From
- a 1958 letter to his teenage son Thom
- Year
- 1958
- Words
- 4
- Letters
- 19
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