It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departe… - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever — that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.