Jean De La Bruyere :
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
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Bereavement
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Death and Dying
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Marriage
Gift it
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