I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story._ (David Copperfield)__ut all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those days were not gone. Like the tiny, terrible holes in the prophylactics, the phantoms of those days were not easy to detect__nd their meaning was unknown__ut they were there.
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I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story._ (David Copperfield)__ut all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those days were not gone. Like the tiny, terrible holes in the prophylactics, the phantoms of those days were not easy to detect__nd their meaning was unknown__ut they were there.
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