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And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

— Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

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People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

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