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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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New York City
New York
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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