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Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

Anita Shreve

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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
Love
Memory
Partings
Embrace
Wrenching
Sweet
Greetings
Memories
Embraces
Simply
Kisses
Happened
Parting
Come
Imagining
Made
Kissing

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