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

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“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.”

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

“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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