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The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are.

Jon Krakauer

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
Journalist
Mountaineer
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
Fear
Recycling
Persons
Reconcile
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Deception
Might
Followed
Self
Void
Rationalizations
Endless
Litany
Soon
Deceptions
Struggle
Agonizing

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