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Thornton Wilder

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

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Thornton Wilder is saying that people who have lived a long time may not understand or express love as deeply as a child who just experienced the loss of a pet. The child's fresh and raw feelings show a clearer, more honest example of love than the complicated or distant feelings of adults.

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