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You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

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Anne Fortier
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
Writer
DK
Wrong
Living
Death
Right
Life
Hurts
Worth
Hurt

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She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.
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.... death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
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But he is an Italian, was Umberto's sensible reply. He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long as you wear beautiful shoes. Are you wearing beautiful shoes? Are you wearing the shoes I gave you?...principessa? I looked down at my flip-flops. I guess I'm toast.
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.
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