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Jitterbug Perfume ‧ 1984
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere – the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker suggests that for a young person full of imagination, the most shattering or marvelous event is stumbling unprepared into lives beyond their own. Imagination itself is both gift and affliction, and the sudden realization that a real world exists elsewhere can feel like either.
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