“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

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Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952

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“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

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