"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."

Time, Childhood, First, Moments

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"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."

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