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If grief is a thing with feathers, it is sometimes a source of torture and terror, and other times a comic chicken dancing down the street. It all depends whose pen is doing the writing.
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Grief is a thing with feathers. But whether it is a source of torture and terror or a comic chicken dancing across the road depends on whose pen is doing the talking.
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