If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath__ time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.
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...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath__ time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.
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