Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected. (Oliver Goldsmith)

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Oliver Goldsmith

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