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George MacDonald - The Princess and the Goblin (BONUS Entry)

BONUS ENTRY  There are times when in life that you fall so deeply and madly in love with something that when you come away from it a bit, you may think that your love for that thing was misaligned or that you misremembered it somehow. You may have found that you were too naïve or too young to really know a thing enough to love it. These doubts persist especially into middle age and you thought that did had not experienced enough to love so much and that the young are often given to exaggeration or infatuation so that the thing itself could be fine enough sure but then when reencountered you may not feel the same for it. It is a rare thing indeed to happen upon this put away thing that the same sense of joy and elation return to you as you experience something long forgotten anew. These are very rare things indeed. I had the experience to find two well forgotten things simply this, that I have loved them well in my youth and undergraduate days, but put those things away as I had not the