Get out of here! Go back to Rome. You’re young and the world is yours. I’m old. I don’t want to hear you talk anymore. I want to hear others talking about you. Don’t come back. Don’t think about us. Don’t look back. Don’t write. Don’t give in to nostalgia. Forget us all. If you do and you come back, don’t come see me. I won’t let you in my house. Understand?
Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) in the film Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Wow! Is that words for the 18/21 birthday!! Quite a gift really to be relieved from all guilt when you don’t phone home! Not nice if you need a sub though! (OMG! OMG!)