Loss of a loved one marks the true beginning of life

Evidence

“Life doesn’t really begin until you experience the death of a loved one.” … This passage that I write about, right now, paying homage to the gifts she unwrapped with words. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 961

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• APHORISMS: A genuine piece of life-advice from the grandmother who names the author — about grief as the threshold of real living — worth returning to.