December 2010
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“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
– Albus Dumbledore
A beautiful yet unknown world.
Chloe: It's such a beautiful world, Jordy. I didn't know. I didn't know it was such a beautiful world. I mean, how could I know?
Jordy: I'm a little surprised myself.
Chloe: What if I'd lived my whole life and never known? Do people live their whole lives and never know?
Jordy: Lots of people, lots of people live in one city all their lives. Lots of other people see all the things we've seen and still don't know it's a beautiful world.
Chloe: How sad.
Jordy: It is.
Chloe: But it didn't work out that way for us. Thank you for that.
It works both ways. Without Chloe, Jordy wouldn't have seen all this. Without Chloe, Jordy might have seen all this and still not known what a beautiful world it is. The saddest fate of all.
- Catherine Ryan Hyde, from Becoming Chloe
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