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Dana Reinhardt Biography

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“I thought he might kiss me as we sat shivering on the bank of the spring with our clothes soaked through and our feet dangling in the steaming water. We looked into each other's eyes the way I'd always imagined people did right before they leaned in closer and touched lips for the first time. But that was all we did. We looked at each other. Into each other. We were still clutching hands.”

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“–Creo que el destino no tiene nada que ver. Creo que todo eso son tonterías. ¿Quieres saber cuál es la fuerza real que está detrás de todo lo que pasa en tu vida? –Supongo. –La herencia. Quiénes son tus padres. Incluso quiénes fueron tus abuelos. Y tú ya te has escapado de esa fuerza porque no te pareces en nada a tu padre. Crees profundamente en las conexiones reales, de persona a persona. Eso es lo que te ha pasado con Daphne. Has conectado con ella, y puede que te parezca que se deba a alguna fuerza que no es de este mundo, el destino o como quieras llamarlo, pero te arriesgaste, aunque tomases algunos riesgos estúpidos, y te abriste a ella. Eso es lo que hace que la vida valga la pena. Ese tipo de conexiones. Así que ahora no puedes encogerte de hombros y echarle la culpa al destino en plan "supongo que no estaba escrito". Siempre se te van a presentar obstáculos. Tienes que levantarte y superarlos porque, si dejas todo en manos del destino, le estás dando el control a una fuerza que no existe. Tienes que creer en el poder de tus conexiones.”

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“As the bus took us north on a connection of dark farm roads and smaller highways, I started to wonder where all the cars were. How could the streets be so empty? How could people sleep when there was so much at stake, so much happening, when there were so many reasons to be awake and alive? And I wondered how it was that I could feel both empty, like these streets, and yet so full at the same time. And those weren't the only contrasting poles inside me. I felt sad and happy. Scared and exhilarated. I felt young and old.”

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“We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.”

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