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Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.
Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.
Approximate author period: c. 2008 AD · contemporary
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- Mary Ann Shaffer
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- Approximate author period: c. 2008 AD · contemporary
Approximate author-period evidence for Mary Ann Shaffer: documented activity in 2008. Wikidata Q440146, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q440146 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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