She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. (Alice Munro)

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

Alice Munro

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