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“I feel strongly that from my being a little lost boy with no family to becoming a man with two, everything was meant to happen just the way it happened. And I am profoundly humbled by that thought.”
― Saroo Brierley, A Long Way Home

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“I'd spent a lifetime becoming a mirror that just reflected back the person others wanted to see, but she didn't want anything. So I was nothing.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

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“My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".”
― Saroo Brierley, A Long Way Home

tags: happiness, mothers, reunions, sons

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“This is when the old me would have run.
The new me was starting to have too much to lose.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

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“People are always their most beautiful when you know you’re never going to see them again.”
― Cristin Terrill, Here Lies Daniel Tate

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Literary Adventure — 77 members — last activity May 14, 2015 04:51PM
Please join us, we will embark on a journey of the literary sorts. The goal is to read 100 books in the year 2015. I know that it can be done! It seem ...more

Love YA Books! — 64 members — last activity Jan 04, 2015 03:46PM
Love Young Adult books?Want to make more friends?Well this is a perfect place for you!This is not just for discussing books,you can say what you are c ...more

The Buried Children book — 76 members — last activity Jul 24, 2015 09:25PM
The Buried Children book on Amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MBU7I66 ) All earnings help immigrant kids, read more at www.MyAmericanKids.com!

Romania — 4920 members — last activity May 17, 2026 02:42AM
Grupul Romania, deschis tuturor celor de nationalitate romana, rudelor si prietenilor acestora, indiferent de unde sunt, locuiesc, traiesc prin lume. ...more