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Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

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Pierre Loti
Age: 73 †
Born: 1850
Born: January 14
Died: 1923
Died: June 10
Diarist
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Officer Of The French Navy
Photographer
Travel Writer
Writer
Rochefort-sur-Mer
Julien Viaud
Louis Marie Julien Viaud
Piyer Loti
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Older
Children
Became
Men
Especially
Grew
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Growing
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Possible
Eager
Become
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Women
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I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
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My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.
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