When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, …

Stephen King
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When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights. ✨ Stephen King (2009). Nightmares & Dreamscapes, p.1, Simon and Schuster
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