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Joan Didion Quote The famous author Joan Didion has a quote that says “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit to down for dinner and life as you know it ends.” This quote can easily be mistaken for dark or depressing but there is a lot more meaning behind these few sentences. It took me a great amount of time to find a quote that can reflect on my life, but when I stumbled across this one, I knew my search was over. In my life, I have only been through 17 years and it is literally the longest thing i've ever experienced. It could be me going through teenage years or maybe the amount of stress I endure because I feel like I’ve already been through so much. That being said, it hard for me to think about people that are 100
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