“Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
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