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Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother Quotes: I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.
         

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.


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I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.
         



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