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Thu 11 Nov 2009Use love on your enemies until they give you what you want
THERE ARE some things we will never understand. Death, for one. I overheard a woman in the drug store say: “He went in to the hospital yesterday and he was eating his supper and then he fell asleep and then he died. I don’t get it.”
She didn’t seem grief-stricken, just uncomprehending. (Why did it have to happen now?)
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