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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

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Cf. Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider (White Plains, N. Y.: Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 2007), p. 49.

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