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No one told Emma that she would one day be able to pick her own family. She didn’t know that she could create her own family. She had no idea that these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.
Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matterand How To Make The Most Of Them Now
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