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"By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe. He is no towering oak tree with luxuriant branches... rather he is like the sayal bushes in the deserts of Sudan... defeating death because they ask so little of life." (p73)
— Jan 04, 2025 05:00AM
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"...just like us they are born and die, and in the journey from the cradle to the grave they dream dreams some of which come true and some of which are frustrated; that they fear the unknown, search for love and seek contentment in wife and child... that some have been given more than they deserve by life, while others have been deprived by it..." (p3)
— Jan 03, 2025 09:58AM
