"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people lo...
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
~ Ernest Hemingway ~
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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