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How often have we exchanged our mutual gratitude—the easy unthinking kindnesses of long friendship.
Lloyd Schwartz
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To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death (2014); Two complete lines, one sentence. Full poem read: gratitude recalled amid an unexplained friendship rupture; the friend is alive, so this is not a bereavement quotation. Author-permitted text published February 27, 2014.
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To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death (2014)
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