Sometimes, they arrive in the form of a framed graduation photo, a tearful phone call, or a story from a stranger whose life was changed by someone you loved. And those gifts remind us that even in the midst of heartbreak, there is beauty. Even in the depth of loss, there is hope.
And even when someone we love is gone, they are never truly gone at all. They live on in the people they touched. They live on in the kindness they shared.
And they live on in us.
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