Acceptance is what you do to the weather when your parade is rained on; love is what you do to your children when they begin living a life that you haven’t lived and don’t understand. That is loving life, and praising life, and proceeding accordingly. Getting good at dying, for anyone involved in it, doesn’t mean that you are fine in spite of it all. It means to be wrecked on schedule. It means not wanting to die when you know you are dying. It means saying so. It means wanting more than anything for your loved one not to be dying and telling them this. It means missing people long before they
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