Bette Greene - Morning is a Long Time Coming (1978)

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It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.

Bette Greene

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

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And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

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Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Bette Greene