"Making up for lost time?""Yes," I say. "A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of important things. And now I have to get them back." "In...

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
~ Haruki Murakami ~











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