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Peter De Vries: The death of a beloved child

Ps_little_girl_postmortem_by_mrwa_2 The death of a beloved child means that the future is a thing of the past.

       --Peter De Vries (1910-1993), The Blood of the Lamb (pub.1961, Little, Brown)

[The quotations above may not be exact. Please let me know if you have the correct one.]

08 May 2005 in American, On the Death of a Child, On the Death of a Parent, On the Death of a Sibling |

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