However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

about her overactive imagination

J.K. Rowling

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537 You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
998 We touch other peoples lives simply by existing.
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