How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better …

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. ✨ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). GIFT FROM THE SEA
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