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Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied
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But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
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the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
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I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.
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Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
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I like myself better when I'm with you.
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I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
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The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
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I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4
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There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.
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You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
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When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.
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Small towns are like metronomes with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
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