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I once thought that when you understood something, it was with you forever. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all of our lives to remember the most basic things.

Lucy Grealy

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“I once thought that when you understood something, it was with you forever. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all of our lives to remember the most basic things.” — Lucy Grealy

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