When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, hullo! i'm growing up. It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call growing up. β¨ C.S. Lewis (1960). Mere Christianity
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