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Ethel Waters

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

Ethel Waters

Teen

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Ethel Waters is saying that even if you want to reconnect with the people from your childhood, you can't fully fit in with them like you used to. This is because both you and they have changed over time, making it impossible to return to the past exactly as it was.

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