“That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, book Sister of My Heart

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novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist 1956

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