Complex sentence: It seems to me that the most lasting impressions in life are those you receive as a young adult, they stick with you, and strange as it was, the older she got, the closer she felt to the war years.
Split into simpler sentences: It seems to me that the most lasting impressions in life are those you receive as a young Adult They stick with you. And strange as it was, the older she got, the closer she felt to the war years.