"By the time I was 12 or..." - Quote by Paul Simon
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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“in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.”