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I may say that it was there that I spent the happiest years of my infancy and of my early youth.
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The speaker looks back on that place as the setting of the happiest years of childhood and early adolescence. The statement expresses warm, personal nostalgia for a formative period, without identifying what made those years happy or naming the place itself.
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- DergiPark academic article, “The Ottoman Seraglio: An Institution of Power and Education”
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