"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."
"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
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Source: The Chronicles of Prydain, Book V: The High King. Book by Lloyd Alexander, 1968.
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