I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don’t need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things–though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart–and at the ranch, I could see, we’d have pretty much everything we’d need but precious little else. Jeannette Walls
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