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Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. but who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
-Mary Oliver
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Life Is Much The Same When It's

Mary Oliver
Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. but who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
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