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“No one, no one really knows loss until it's someone you love. The deep-down kind of love that holds on to your bones and digs itself right in under your fingernails, as hard to budge as the years of compacted earth. And when it's gone... it's as if it's been ripped from you. Raw and exposed, you stand dripping blood all over the good feckin' carpet. Half-human, half-dead, one foot already in the grave.”