Two and a half weeks ago, when a loved one was going away. Separations never get any easier.
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View all 193 →A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
I cry all the time. I like crying: it means that you’re more truly aware of a circumstance or a person or an event.
When my dog died a couple of years ago. We were in Greece on vacation and a friend was watching her at home, and she was bitten by a snake. We rushed home, but we were too late by a few hours.
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Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?
Angela Merkel; she seems wise, compassionate, curiously huggable.
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