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Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.

Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.

Approximate author period: c. 1956 AD · modern

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Approximate author period: c. 1956 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: documented birth year 1956; activity date not established. Wikidata Q2627089, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2627089 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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