"Only with her I was not alone, now I am alone with everyone."

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“My true single consolation is that she is not present to see me in my agony of her death.”

“Never again I would know her slow kisses which are hardly felt. Never again the ringing mourning bells, songs of the dead that we loved.”

“She answers no more, the one who used to answer always.”

“With her alone I could be far away from everyone.”

“She does not talk anymore, the one who used to talk so pleasantly.”

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