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At a ridiculously early age, I was spiritually ambitious, devising five-year plans to achieve self-realization and change my life forever. I'm convinced that every plan worked even as every plan failed, I carried heavy books in my outings into nature. When they became too heavy to lug any longer I left them at my favorite sights, imagining that a fellow wanderer would find enlightenment at the very spot where I had laid my burden down... -Val Kilmer