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This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
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- Madeleine L'Engle
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- Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1918 to 2007; Wikidata Q257261, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257261 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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