I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. (Pat Conroy)

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

Pat Conroy

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