"It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell - a grain of sand that I didn't know was there and didn't particularly welcome. Then a pearl started forming around the grain and it irritated me, made me angry, tortured me sometimes. But the oyster can't help becoming obsessed with the pearl."

Growth, Pain, Change, Transformation

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"It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell - a grain of sand that I didn't know was there and didn't particularly welcome. Then a pearl started forming around the grain and it irritated me, made me angry, tortured me sometimes. But the oyster can't help becoming obsessed with the pearl."

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