“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”

— Margaret Atwood, book Cat's Eye

Variant: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Source: Cat's Eye (1988)

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