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Betsy Gant
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“I just wanted to show you that sometimes things survive despite the harshest of odds.”
“the desire to get every last bit out, every last thank you, every last I’m sorry.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“I don’t want to have to bounce back. Why hurt when you can just avoid it all in the first place?”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“Dying is something I have to do alone.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“It seems unfair that time is almost up for me just when I’m finding true happiness again, but time is never a friend to the sick or the old.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“But being alone isn’t the way to make you happy,” she said. Yet, I was happy, eventually. All things take time. Grief can be wide and feel bottomless sometimes, but eventually, it begins to subside, to grow into something useful. I spent my time volunteering as a tutor, training for and running half-marathons, visiting Aunt June and Alice in Boston. For my fortieth birthday, I forced myself out of my comfort zone, took cash out of my savings account, hopped on an airplane and spent the summer in Italy and France, reading books and wandering through ancient cities. I dated but never found affection enough for a relationship.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
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