Clara’s Reviews > Notes of a Crocodile > Status Update

A certain part of me has died as I've learned to leave behind the qualities of my youth —the overanxiousness, oversensitivity and idealism, that diminish with life experience. I was a late bloomer, but at long last, I lost my innocence. Like anyone else when they're young, I harbored lofty expectations but lacked the self-knowledge to comprehend my own passions and vices.