Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
– John Updike
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- But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. – John Updike
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