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“Lapsena ja nuorena kuuluu asiaan hävetä omia vanhempiaan. Itseään teini voi vielä jotenkin yrittää hallita, mutta omat vanhemmat – he ovat kuin luonnonvoima, jonka aisoissa pitäminen on lähes mahdotonta. Muistan prinsessa Victorian kertoneen tv-dokumentissa, miten hirveää oli, kun vanhemmat tulivat avoimien ovien päivänä vierailulle hänen esikouluunsa ja hyppivät muiden isien ja äitien kanssa pupujusseina piirissä. Carl Gustafilla oli naurettavat flanellikorvat päässä ja kaiken lisäksi hän oli kuningas. Kruununprinsessa häpesi kuollakseen.”

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“Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one-- that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes. Images of the city to the south speed through his consciousness, but he has seen neither a city nor a likeness of one and does not know what to imagine, and his visions intermingle with Grandfather's tales of talking foxes and moon-spiders, of towers made of glass and bridges between the stars.”

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“Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one-- that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes. Images of the city to the south speed through his consciousness, but he has seen neither a city nor a likeness of one and does not know what to imagine, and his visions intermingle with Grandfather's tales of talking foxes and moon-spiders, of towers made of glass and bridges between the stars.”

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