“…once she becomes a teenager…well, sometimes there's nothing you can do. With or without you, in the end, children grow up to become the people they were meant to be.”

—  Nicholas Sparks

Lexie Darnell, Chapter 16, p. 196-197
2000s, At First Sight (2005)

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