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Quote by Dorothy Livesay
It was the first time I discovered this is Canada.
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The speaker recalls a first-time realization: they discovered that the place or situation they were experiencing was Canada. The sentence does not say what led to this discovery, only that recognizing it was new to them.
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- Canadian Poetry: “An Interview with Dorothy Livesay”
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