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I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Black
Cried
Shut
Remembered
Dreamless
Loss
Swelled
Least
Awoke
Sleep
Refreshed
Eyes
Amazingly
Eye
Slept

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