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When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
Author
Columnist
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Trenton
New Jersey
Mitchell David Mitch Albom
Mitchell David Albom
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Death

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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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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.
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when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
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Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.
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The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
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