It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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