Carolina QuotesTime just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 16 (p. 191)
- work
- The Old Man and the Boy (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- p. 191
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“Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is wh…” Robert Ruark. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-E44E642F9F. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/e44e642f9f
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