If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim --
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
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