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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Trenton
New Jersey
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Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.
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I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.
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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
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Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
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Remember me for these days, not the old ones.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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