When We Flew Away - Alice Hoffman

There is a day you never forget, the day the whole world changes. When you close your eyes, light becomes dark, night never ends, beasts walk freely down the street, stars fall from the sky. You were young one second, and then you were far too old. You lived years in minutes and decades in weeks. You wanted to travel, you wanted to grow up, you wanted to be beautiful, you wanted to fall in love.

You wanted so much that your heart broke in half, but half a heart is better than none, and your heart is stronger than anyone would guess.

You remember everything.

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