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“I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not.”
“The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.”
“I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?”
“But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?”
“Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or car...”