The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. (Nan Fairbrother)

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother

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