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"Be yourself - Be easier on yourself. Become yourself, as fully as possible. Attempting to isolate those life lessons I could pass those life lessons I could pass back to the girl I used to be was a truly illuminating excercise. It made me look at my 17-year old daughter and remember,  in a more powerful way than ever before, just how raw and vivid life is for her, in a way that has been only intermittenly for me as an adult. I would not go back to 16 for anything you could give me, and yet I still recognize that she has something I have lost along the way - something I had to lose -     J.K. Rowling