Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Anthony Powell
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  1. Life is a barter of choice and consequences.

  2. Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After

  3. I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.

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