I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures....We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.

Gail Caldwell
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When we lose someone we love, we cannot get over their loss and miss them. However, we can absorb it and move on. We can feel their presence in our life and in the world around us. We can tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.

Source: Lets Take The Long Way Home: A Memoir Of Friendship

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