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What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties. It’s in the stupid hopes that our dreams are sure things that will surely happen. The truth is they are never certainties. The idea of permanence when everything is in flux is the one thing that will keep you from moving forward when you should be moving forward.
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