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“. . .she [Alma] and Asku at the train depot in La Crosse[, Wisconsin] before he had left for Brown [University]. “I hate goodbyes,” she’d said after kissing him on the cheek, tears sprang in her eyes and drained down her face. He swept his thumb over her wet cheekbone. “The Anishinaabe have no word for goodbye.” “What do you say in parting?” “You see Life as a straight line, but for us Life is a circle. After something or someone enters our circle they travel with us forever influencing us even if they are not physically present. To us there is no such thing as goodbye.” Once again water filled her eyes as Asku’s voice became an echo in her thoughts . . . .”

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“...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.”

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