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"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

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