A Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
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We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that.
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