+ "We are fragile so that we need beauty. If we never broke, we would never need fixing. We would never know how others have the power to fill hollow spaces in the heart. We would never know the power of books or poems or films or songs, gems from one suffering soul to another, to speak to the spirit. We would never know the power of hands in hands or arms around waists or lips on cheeks, those gentle gestures that light up the world."
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Shirley