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I am programmed in my emotional life by the first work of fantasy that got through to my heart. For me it was Barrie's bitter, sad condemnation of adulthood. Peter Pan has soured so many children into seeing growing-up as an end to something much more real. For Cathy, I could guess that it was Oscar Wilde who first led her into that tricky land of tear puddles.

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