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Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Charles Bukowski
Children, Taken, Laughing
Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses”, p.20, Harper Collins
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.