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Why is life speeded up so? why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Why is life speeded up so? why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?
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