All that love, all that pain, all the stuff people feel — not just me and you, brother, but everyone, everyone who's ever walked this beautiful green planet — how can all that disappear when somebody dies? It can't disappear, it's too big. Too strong, too... permanent. So it moves to another frequency, where the human ear can't pick up. Jennifer Egan
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