Which relationships did you tend well, and which did you neglect while other things felt urgent?

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Toni Morrison Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993

it's not profound regret. It's just a wiping up of tiny, little messes that you didn't recognize as a mess when they were going on

Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, 22 January 2016 source ↗

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