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I never saw myself as a pioneer. It was only later, looking back, that it occurred to me that I was.
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The speaker says that “pioneer” was not how they understood themselves at the time. Only in retrospect did they recognise that their actions could be described that way. The quote shows how a person’s role or significance may become clearer when looking back, rather than while living through the experience.
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