I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young…

Kay Redfield Jamison
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I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.129, Pan Macmillan
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I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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