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The Tenth Circle

It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidoscope color.

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The passage says she truly believed that at fourteen a person could learn how love alters the pace of the blood and fills dreams with kaleidoscopic colour. It presents youthful love as intense and transformative, felt physically and imaginatively rather than as something small.

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