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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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George Eliot reminds us that our departed loved ones never truly leave us as long as we hold their memories close in our hearts.
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Author, British
George Eliot was a renowned British author and one of the leading novelists of the Victorian era.
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