to know & to lose

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another.

Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly --

as if out of the sky, 

or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth --

the same sudden way we lose people,

who once seemed they would always be 

part of our lives.

John Irving

'Last Night in Twisted River'

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