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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it ...more

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We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

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Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at the sky. Now and then, a shooting star w...more

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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

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Anyway, I forgot all about him once I graduated. So quickly and easily, it was weird. What was it about him that had made the seventeen-year-old me fa...more

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I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

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It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaust...more