“…I learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief…lessens. It may not ever go away completely, but after a while it's not overwhelming.”

— Nicholas Sparks , book Dear John

Tim Wheddon, Chapter 20, p. 265
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

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