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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'no, you lied to me. goodbye.' when they see wickedness, they walk away.
-Lorrie Moore
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Twenty-year-olds Have A Kind Of Emotional Idealism

Lorrie Moore
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'no, you lied to me. goodbye.' when they see wickedness, they walk away.
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