I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic …

Annie Dillard
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). An American Childhood, p.16, Canongate Books
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). An American Childhood, p.16, Canongate Books

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