“The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie and the young recover swiftly, or believe they do.”
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 30
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