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You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

´Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside, You don´t. I don´t. People are much more complicated than that. It´s true of everybody´ -Lettie

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.