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 Everyone has their 'lasts': last breakfast, last sip of coffee, last look out the window, last walk down the stairs, the last closing of the door.

"Eventually we reach the season that will be our last. We purchase our last pair of shoes, make our last trip to Paris, see friends for a final time, experience our final spring with crocuses emerging and daffodils defiant and quaint. Not everyone, of course, is graced with the awareness of it being the last time.Not everyone gets to say goodbye gradually. But still, many do realize when they enter such a season and are either blessed or burdened with such an awareness. How to say goodbye? How to let go? How to mourn and hope at the same time?"  How To Inhabit Time (143)