For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D. Souza

<easing-function>

The <easing-function> CSS data type denotes a mathematical function that describes the rate at which a numerical value changes.
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