“Grief is a sphere in that it can be turned a quarter turn or turned a millionth, it can be spun on any axis and by any degree and still its aspect is the same.”

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke, book The Pure Weight of the Heart

Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 28.

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