“I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.”
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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