“Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 6)
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