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TIL that the Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken” AKA erroneously as “The Road Less Traveled” isn’t a salute to can-do individualism but rather a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives - in other words, the two roads are interchangeable.

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