I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

Cheryl Strayed
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We don't know what it was like, but we know that the girl who didn't live has something that we don't have. She had a life, and she made it count. We'll never know what her life was like, but we'll never forget her because she lives on for us in between the moments when we came together and lived, in our dreams of what could have been.

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice On Love And Life From Dear Sugar

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