When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happen…

John Steinbeck
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When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. ✨ John Steinbeck (2002). East of Eden, p.506, Penguin
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