Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid. . J.m. Barrie
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Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. The passage above is from Herman Hesse's "Peter and the Wolf" and is the story of two children whose best friend has just moved away. They are faced with their first real challenge in life, being left alone in the middle of the night without the one person who's always been there for them. They do not yet understand that while their friend is gone, he will never completely leave their hearts.

Source: Peter Pan

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