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explain. “You get a dog and you know two things—you’re going to fall in love with it and it’s going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak. That’s the basic madness of dog ownership.”
“In any case, I wish I could say after all this time it's easier, but it's not easier”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“I've spent my life trying to get back to having him even though I know I cannot.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“You never get over death. Not if you're someone who loves.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“That's an extra cruelty that cancer brings, Ted thought, when you're waiting for everything to go back to normal again. Until one day you realize that the illness has become the new normal.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
Fonville Winans, Photographer
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For fans of the photographer Fonville Winans. Winans famously photographed Louisiana's Depression-era Cajuns, and in doing so documented a hardscrabbl ...more
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