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Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for margo and my mother. they had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.
-Alice Hoffman
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Cleaning Up After Themselves Was A Low

Alice Hoffman
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for margo and my mother. they had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.
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And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. for an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. it is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.
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