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The Crane Wife - The Paris Review
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He needed to practice coming back to the self-awareness and rigor of self-care when he forgot, to work on communication with his parents and partners, and to allow himself to pursue true joy, even when it seemed scary, put him at odds with his folks, or made him an outsider for a time.
At the end of his life, the great picture book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak said on the NPR show Fresh Air, "I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die, and I can't stop them. They leave me, and I love them more."
He said, "I'm finding out as I'm aging that I'm in love with the
world."
It has taken me all my life up to no
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