"If all fairy tales begin "Once upon a time," then all graduation speeches begin "When I was sitting where you are now." We may not always say it, at least not in those exact words, but it's what graduation speakers are thinking. We look out at the sea of you and think, Isn't there some mistake? I should still be sitting there. I was that young fifteen minutes ago, I was that beautiful and lost."
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Novelists from the United StatesEssayists from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen born in the 1960s
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