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Wallace Stegner Quotes: Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
         

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.


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