“Some say that we are different people at different periods of our lives, changing not through effort of will, which is a brave affair, but in the easy course of nature every ten years or so . . . I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing as it were in these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house. If we unlock the rooms of the far past we can peer in and see ourselves, busily occupied in beginning to become you and me.”and me.”
J. M. Barrie, from the Dedication
to his first edition of Peter Pan