Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us …

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Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival. ✨ Roger Ebert (2004). Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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