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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.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Moments
Graves
Body
Sadness
Weighed
Heavy
Afterward
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Grief
Grieving
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Toward
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Long
Went
Pulling
Moment
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Found
Twice

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