"If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived."

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Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.201, Vintage

J. Courtney Sullivan

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