“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Diary entry on the first anniversary of the kidnapping and death of her son Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (1 March 1932); later published in Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1974) ISBN 0156529564

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