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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
Anita Diament
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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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