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lilya kunitskaya

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photo by iamthechanster

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Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

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@whumpril Day 21: STAGES OF GRIEF (acceptance). Up (2009)

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Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

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Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

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I did not bow. I did not flee—and for that, the stars gave you to me.

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