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Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

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When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

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Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.

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Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

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Jackie Kay

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Born: November 9, 1961 (age 64)
Bio: Jackie Kay is a Scottish poet and novelist. She is the third modern Makar, the Scottish poet laureate.
Known for:
  1. Trumpet (1998)
  2. Adoption Papers (1991)
  3. Darling: New & Selected Poems (2006)
  4. Why don't you stop talking (2002)
  5. Wish I Was Here (2006)

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