Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

Alice Munro
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  1. It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

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