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Death's Gift

The tracks that we make in the snow or mud soon disappear leaving no trace of their origin.  Humans are not like that, though.  Our lives are fraught with meaning.

In giving a eulogy for a close friend, George Santayana remarked, "I do not know know which is greater - that which you take from me or that which you leave behind."

So it is for us.

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