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"She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past."
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"That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?"

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"If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale."

"She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be."

"I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?"
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