Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Margery AllinghamAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: May 20, 1889
- Died: June 30, 1966
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