I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.

Dan Groat
I had always been a boy in this place, and...
I had always been a boy in this place, and...
I had always been a boy in this place, and...
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The quote, “I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that.

I had changed the most.” by American writer John Cheever, is an example of the power of time. The author, speaking about his childhood home in Massachusetts, is saying that he has changed more than any of the other things around him had. He has become closer to some of the things that used to exist as people, trees or rocks instead of objects.

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

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