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From every ending comes a new beginning.

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Lurlene McDaniel
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 5
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.
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You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.
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I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.
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Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.
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I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine.
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What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.
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I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .
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I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.
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Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
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In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.
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You want to attach emotionally.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.
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If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.
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Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.
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If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.
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But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
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On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.
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I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.
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The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.
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