“Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could. At the deepest level, he'd come to understand that life could end at any moment, and it was better to be happy than busy.”
Micah Sparks, Chapter 17, p. 339
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
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