Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an i…

Tom Robbins
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Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there. ✨ Tom Robbins (2003). Jitterbug Perfume, p.101, Bantam
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