"At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played."

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The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.

— Gail Sheehy