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Blanche is on a date with Mitch, a friend of her
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He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery–love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me.
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this–kitchen– candle…
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire Signet Books, 1951, pp.95-6.
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