The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact o…

C. S. Lewis
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The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.11, Faber & Faber
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The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.11, Faber & Faber

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