If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
The Forgotten Garden
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Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
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