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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 61
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Patterns
Endless
Life
Circling
Anew
Returning
Variation
Emerge
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Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
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Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
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It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.
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It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
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Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.
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Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
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