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Nina's Friends

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James Irwin
James Irwin

James Irwin was an American astronaut born on March 17, 1930, and passed away on August 8, 1991. He is renowned for his role in the Apollo 15 mission, the sixth manned mission to the Moon in human history. more

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“That’s when I realized that I really loved you.” She sat down on the floor with me. She spoke quiet. “Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you’re not even there sometimes. It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.”

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