“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.”
Source: The Beginner's Goodbye
“Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”
Source: The Town in Bloom
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