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"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Mourning, Death, Loss, Grief, Pain

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"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."

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