I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that.

Kate Braestrup
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I can’t make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that. The phrase “just like that” is a famous quote from the movie The Shawshank Redemption. It means that something is beautiful and goes without saying.

Source: Here If You Need Me: A True Story

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