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The End of Childhood

The central subject is the riding accident in which his he was severely injured, lay for a long time in a come emerged from that for some years before she died. And it's something that you write about in this your sense er as soon as it happened, your recognition that something momentous had happened,. and that it was a sort of turning point in your own life. It also did something else to your sense about the past up to that moment, yes. i think if something very treumatic happens to you at whatat a time of your life which in which childhood is turning into adeldhood, it can make a much more definite break between the two. You were 16 at

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