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Finley Peter Dunne quote: "The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant..."

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

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Only I still had a problem. The problem was my parents. Of the many things I was afraid of in those days - spiders, insomnia, fish hooks, school dances, hardball, heights, bees, urinals, puberty, music teachers, dogs, the school cafeteria, censure, older teenagers, jellyfish, locker rooms, boomerangs, popular girls, the high dive - I was probably most afraid of my parents. Jonathan Franzen
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