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You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.
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What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
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Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
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Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
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