I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
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"Two souls and one thought only
... E.F.J. VON MUNCH BELLINGHAUSEN ("FRIEDRICH HALM") Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. E F J VON MUNCH-BELLINGHAUSEN