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> [“In the earliest years, when you could still drive a Volvo 240 without feeling self-conscious, the collective task in Ramsey Hill was to relearn certain life skills that your own parents had fled to the suburbs specifically to unlearn, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/in-the-earliest-years-when-you-could-still-drive-a-volvo-240-without/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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