Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully a…

E. B. White
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Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. ✨ E. B. White (2013). Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition, p.16, Harper Collins
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Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. ✨ E. B. White (2013). Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition, p.16, Harper Collins

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