Breathe Quote by Marilyn Johnson

“There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.” quote by Marilyn Johnson — Download Open image

“There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.”

Marilyn Johnson

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