watson-sighs-and-tuts:“You know it’s from a poem,” he said. “By Catullus. ’Frater, ave atque vale.’
watson-sighs-and-tuts:“You know it’s from a poem,” he said. “By Catullus. ’Frater, ave atque vale.’ ‘Hail and farewell, my brother.’ He speaks of ashes, of the rites of the dead, and his own grief for his brother. I was taught the poem young, but I didn’t feel it - either his grief, or his loss, or even the wondering what it would be like to die and to have no one grieve you.” He looked up at her sharply. “What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?” -- source link
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