citation:
Extremely loud and incredibly close (p.79)
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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"When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big for me and would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me he had asked the jeweller to make it that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I couldn’t wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice."