“Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.”
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Albert Schweitzer
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William Wordsworth
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Alfred Tennyson
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Cormac McCarthy
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Emily Dickinson
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Jodi Picoult
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