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Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides Quotes: I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
         

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.


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I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
         



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