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Scott Fitzgerald's novel,The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death.
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While travelling throughout the United States of America, Hans hiked the Appalachian Trail, surfed the Pacific Ocean, <em>drove</em> across the entire continent and sailed down the Mississippi.
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Missing a little context here, but I'll assume it's a mom talking to a rebellious teen, or similar. (sorry if I got it wrong.)
I would assume that a frustrated mother is talking to a brand new adult that is now refusing to obey their mother. Or something like that. So, she is guilting them by saying how many years of her life she spent on them. All that time she could have spent doing something else, but instead, she invested it in them, and this is what she is getting out of it?