The ghosts that exert the most power in people__ lives-at least, the people I know__end to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.
When you're young, you long for things that don't exist; and when you're old, you're sad because you never found them.
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When you're young, you long for things that don't exist; and when you're old, you're sad because you never found them.
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