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Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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