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The rest of the book details how she lives her life up like a candle. She leads a tragic life from the very first "dear diary," and although there are wonderful times filled with warmth and joy in the end I felt completely depressed. One of the closing thoughts is this, “love lives not in places nor even bodies but in the spaces between them, the long and lovely sweep of air and sky, and in the living heart and memory until that is gone too, and we are all wanderers, as we have always been, upon the earth”

I loved the author's descriptions and voice. I would love to read more by her but I'm already haunted enough by this one.

FYI: There is some language and some difficult scenes like a young girl being raped.]]>