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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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