Shirley Hazzard :
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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Children
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Love
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Life and Living
Gift it
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