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"If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between."
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Source: Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.20, Macmillan
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