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No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John.
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In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.
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I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.
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I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.
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The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
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I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.
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God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.
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Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.
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Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.
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Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.
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What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
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The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.
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I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.
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He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.
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That's what dating is for, after all - to learn if you're compatible with someone.
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In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
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We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
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Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.
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In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream.
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When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
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But she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.
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There were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives.
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You should not complain, it's not attractive.
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If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.