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Robert Bly Quotes: The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.
         

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.


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