"I could only imagine. I am two centuries old, of course, but I slept most of those." It is not anywhere near the same situation since Ichabod did not live the years between then and now.
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"I could only imagine. I am two centuries old, of course, but I slept most of those." It is not anywhere near the same situation since Ichabod did not live the years between then and now.