Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is … - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done. . . life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

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