M arriage heals this. Jointly the two become fully human...And then one or other dies. And we think of this as love cut short; like a dance stopped in mid-career...I can’t help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation...bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. It follows marriage as normally as marriage follows courtship. ” —C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed , writing about his wife’s death. “
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