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Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.
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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
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A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.
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