"I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy."
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"We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.“
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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