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To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
Enough
Much
Love
Forever
Someone

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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
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