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It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

Miriam Toews

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Miriam Toews
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 21
Writer
Miriam Helen Toews (per LAC)
Grieving
Emptiness
Town
Towns
Supposed
Happens
Everything
Hard
Grieve

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