Carolina QuotesYou were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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- Lost Boys (1992)
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- 1992
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