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The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
Anita Diament
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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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