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> [“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his days with the bottle, as if he determined to drink himself to death, as if his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/watching-a-parent-die-is-a-terrible-task-my-father-faced-with/)

[Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/)

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