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From Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott:

She was urging me to go slow and not make any commitment to the guy or want one until we’d gone out for months and months. She said, Think of it as having come upon a beautiful canoe on the shore. Now, no matter how much you want to get in it and paddle way out into the water, maybe all the way across the Pacific, no matter how long you’ve had to wait to do so, you simply don’t do it. You’d paddle around the shore for awhile, maybe for weeks, take little excursions, test it out. Maybe it would seem okay the first few times, but then it might turn out to be full of tiny holes and cracks and start to sink, and you would need to bail. It would have turned out that you had gotten the last good hours out of this beautiful shiny little boat. It was a good thing that you hadn’t gone out very far.