Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated-everlasting farewells!
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Repeated farewells echo endlessly in memory.
- In plain terms
- Saying goodbye over and over feels eternal.
- What can you take from it?
- Grief repeats until processed.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What goodbye do you remember?
- How does loss repeat?
Another view
Some farewells are final without echo.
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