This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, h…

Kurt Vonnegut
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This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2010). Slapstick or Lonesome No More, p.29, Random House
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This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2010). Slapstick or Lonesome No More, p.29, Random House

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