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“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”

-Vladimir Nabokov
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“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.”

-Hermann Hesse
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“The End” by Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore's poem reminds us that those we lose are always with us

My grandma died a little over four and a half years ago; it’s hard to believe it’s been that long. She is, to this day, my role model, undoubtedly one of the sweetest, most loving people I have ever known. … Continue reading

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