But there was one day I remember well, and to which I look back with sensations of the profoundest awe, that was the gateway through which I passed from oblivious childhood into a life of vivid self-consciousness, strange experiences, and startling vicissitudes. This day I have in my inner life—with which no human creature, save one who has long since been in the grave, has meddled—always regarded as that of my nativity. It was the 28th day September, in a year now full forty years since. Of it, and the events that immediately followed it, I will proceed to speak, (…)
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