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When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)
When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)
Approximate author period: c. 1950 AD · modern
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- Victoria Moran
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- Approximate author period: c. 1950 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Victoria Moran: documented birth year 1950; activity date not established. Wikidata Q7926881, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7926881 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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