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What to do with the past? There was so much of it.Robert Hellenga
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The advice he reads in Ann Landers — good advice as long as you don’t need it, perfectly sensible as long as you don’t have any use for it.Robert Hellenga
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He knew that he’d known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things.Robert Hellenga
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Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.Robert Hellenga
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Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we’ve got.Robert Hellenga
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However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.Robert Hellenga
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The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.Robert Hellenga
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Sometimes pain is God’s megaphone, his only way to get our attention.Robert Hellenga