"It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three."

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In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

— Kate Chopin