“If you could tell your younger self anything, what would it be?” she asks.
I ponder the passionate ignorance of my youth, and I know my answer:
“Nothing,” I tell her.
The most important lessons can’t be taught by the telling.
Experience must be lived, born witness to your own failures and successes.
Besides, younger me wouldn’t listen anyway, not even to myself.
“Old man! You surrendered your dreams too easily! I know I can do better than you!”
John the Librarian 
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