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“Separation. It becomes a fact the moment the seed of life takes. Choose to, you could imagine life as a series of separations - birth, leaving home, losing a beloved, death. Those are among the normal separations, the ones you are expected to stand up to. You adjust to them, and move to the next stage.”

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Book:Wilhelmina: An Imagined Memoir

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