"You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies."
"I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too."
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Source: Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd
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