A single, working mother, she could never live out her dreams of being an artist, but she made it a point to send me to art camp each summer.
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― In Five Years
― In Five Years
“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.”
― In Five Years
― In Five Years
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― In Five Years
― In Five Years
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