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Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties_Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
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Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties_Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

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