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Charles is life itself — pure life, force, like sunlight — and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him — caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever he happens to be involved in.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh War Within and Without (1980)

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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

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