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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Consciousness
Self
Takes
Kind
Sleep
Lag
Years
Dream
Jet
Really
Stills
Trip
Home
Sleeping
Still
Catch
Dreams
Come

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