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He was perfect, was how she'd put it to herself. And then that clear-eyed, calm-faced boy would shine forth from Red's sags and wrinkles, from his cru...more

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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

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He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and...more

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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

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For once, the tears wouldn't come. She saw that Michael might have been right. It really could be too cold to snow.