Word: saddens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love for his flighty wife never wavered. After she had left him for the last time he wrote her: "There is no end to my need of you. My thoughts are near you and with pain do I think of our everlasting separation; especially do your vacant, dismantled rooms sadden me. . . ." He was writing to her again ("Farewell with God, beloved angel, I embrace you with my whole heart. . . .") when she lay dying in Geneva, stabbed by a political assassin. The news, Franz Joseph thought, filled his cup. And he was right. In 1916, before he could see the ruin...
...invitation comes from my heart. . . . I want you to tell me about the particular problems which puzzle or sadden you. but I also want you to write me about what has brought joy into your life and how you are adjusting yourself to the new conditions in this amazingly changing world. . . . Your confidence will not be betrayed. Your name will not be printed unless you give permission...