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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Found
Twice
Moments
Graves
Body
Sadness
Weighed
Back
Heavy
Afterward
Thing
Grief
Grieving
Long
Toward
Earlier
Went
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Stood

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