Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Joan Didion

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Tears water our growth.

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So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

E. A. Bucchianeri

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

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