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Grieving for years after a death is infantile, because everybody was always going to die.

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  1. Irving Finkel

    Assyriologist at the British Museum

    So if you’re very fond of somebody or you love somebody and they die, it’s kind of infantile to whine about it ever after. Because what did you think was gonna happen? Either you or them.

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