"Every life has losses. I think I have long taken mine too seriously, with a heaviness inappropriate to actuality."
Gerda Lerner
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“How small and selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one until one is senseless.”Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Queen Consort | Great Britain
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