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How is it possible to exist with so much pain?
Jojo Moyes
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Jojo Moyes
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 4
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Pauline Sara Jo Moyes
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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Nobody fights you like your own sister nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.
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Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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