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To quote Joan Didion, writing about her husband of many decades dying suddenly in front of her while they were eating dinner at home...
"Life changes fast.
Life changes in the instant.
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends."
You just never know when it's gonna happen... and whenever I read about these things happening to other people, or remembering how it happened to my father, I remember the bigger picture. People can die at any moment. Be glad for today, for the people you love who are still alive at this moment. Tell them how much you love them. I need to remember this every day.
I'm glad you were there for her, and that's she's okay. I'm the same way in an external crisis... very calm, almost to the point of it being absurd.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran
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