More words I'm reading now

     "I was with Priscilla today, and we were laughing at her boys. When it came time to write to Margaret Lynch, I found I was taking myself to task for those moments of lightness."
     "The challenge with death is that it can lift a burden, and we feel those two sensations - the lightness which you speak of, along with the melancholy, of loss. You have already suffered one, Maisie, so do not be taken aback when there is only one remaining and it is the one that brings with it moments of levity.  ... do not underestimate your feelings, and don't draw back from doors that open, now that the one closed for years has locked forever. Simon's spirit is at peace. Allow yours to be free as you live"

Jacqueline Winspear, An Incomplete Revenge.

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