"It was real, wasn't it? You and me. Such a long time ago, we were just a couple of kids. But we really loved each other, didn't we?"---The Notebook

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."  A.A. Milne

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much;  who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;  who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;  who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;  who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it;  who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;  whose life was an inspiration;  whose memory a benediction."--Bessie Stanley, 1905, commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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