You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the prayer on your lips for it all to come back to you. It seems cruel, cruel, to give us such a vision; to let us dream and drift through heaven for six months, and then to take it out of our lives.
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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