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You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.Stewart Onan
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The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?Stewart Onan
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They should."" Should be like a wood bee, " she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience.Stewart Onan