Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always want

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This quote reflects the speaker's childhood dream of becoming a guard and their admiration for a specific girl who held that role. However, their dreams were shattered when they contracted polio and had to resume school as a guard instead. The teacher's act of taking away their guard button symbolizes the loss of their innocence and the crushing of their aspirations. It depicts the speaker's devastating experience of having their dreams and identity stripped away abruptly.

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