A Legacy of Love: The Memories We Leave Behind

How can we impart fragments of ourselves to others that might inspire and guide them?
A Legacy of Love: The Memories We Leave Behind
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Jeff Minick
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“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, Love leaves a memory no one can steal.” —From an old Irish headstone

In Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s novel “The Labyrinth of the Spirits,” a mysterious writer, Julian Carax, writes these words in a last note to a young friend: “Never forget that we exist so long as someone remembers us.”
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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