If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
Grief was dagger-shaped and sharp and pointed inward. It was made of fresh loss and old sorrow. Rendered and forged and sometimes polished. Irene Finney had taken her daughter__ death and to that sorrow she__ added a long life of entitlement and disappointment, of privilege and pride. And the dagger she__ fashioned was taking a brief break from slashing her insides, and was now pointed outward.
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Grief was dagger-shaped and sharp and pointed inward. It was made of fresh loss and old sorrow. Rendered and forged and sometimes polished. Irene Finney had taken her daughter__ death and to that sorrow she__ added a long life of entitlement and disappointment, of privilege and pride. And the dagger she__ fashioned was taking a brief break from slashing her insides, and was now pointed outward.
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