Milton is telling us that he is himself in the process, still in the process, of maturing.

弥尔顿是告诉我们他自己也还正在，渐渐成熟的过程中。

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So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

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