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A Hand Across Time - A Tribute to a Friend

For Marie

  Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person,

having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,

but pouring them all right out, just as they are ---

chaff and grain together --- content that a faithful hand will take and sift them,

keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness,

blow the rest away.

--- Dinah Mulock

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