Katherine PatersonI love revisions… We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
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We should learn from our mistakes, especially those that may have been made during our school days. We may have learned a lesson from them, but maybe we didn’t take the advice we were given to heart, and the mistakes might have been made even today. While it is not possible to go back and revise our lives, we can always go back and revise what we have written.
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