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"I said aloud: 'I don't want to miss anything.' And then the misery came rushing back like a river that has been dammed up. I tried to open my heart to it, to welcome it as part of my life's experience, and at first that made it easier to bear."

"The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

"And then I happened to catch sight of Miss Blossom's silhouette and heard her say: 'Well, you just hang on to that comforting bit of high thinking, duckie, because you're going to need it.'"