Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh was a 20th-century American aviator and author. Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave

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