"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purp...

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
~ Helen Keller ~












Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know....
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