A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · Skopia

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A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

1976

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Missing someone Losing a loved one Grief Mourning

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Aries, Philippe. Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

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