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“Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.” quote by Lois Wyse — Download Open image

“Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.”

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For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

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... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in…

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If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

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All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

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I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against…

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Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good…

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Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents…

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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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