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“It does not matter whether I want to be changed, because I am changed.”

“There is a sensation that is frightening, of a receding, of an ancestry slipping away, but at least I am left with enough for myth, if not memory.”

“A laugh that I will never laugh again. “Never” has come to stay. “Never” feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.”

“isolation is anathema and “stop crying” a refrain.”

“You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language, and the grasping for language.”