I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness … - Douglas Coupland

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I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.

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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

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