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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.
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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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