They will remember this first draft the way we remember our first loves. The second draft will be like a mature love: long-lasting, decent, steady and right. It will not be like a first love: short-lived, painful, directionless and all wrong. They will look back on the world in which we are living with a certain bewilderment and awe, not quite believing that life was ever this way, just as when we are in a mature relationship, we can’t ever believe we lived through that first one. Some part of us will always love the first one, and long for it a little bit. So will people in the next draft of
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