I hope you will understand.
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I hope you will not misunderstand.
I just adore this book, this author, this story, this excerpt.
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excerpt. page twohundretsixtyfive following.
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…this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes up one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night’s sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn’t hear her husband’s ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren’s will be. But we learn to live in that love. …
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