It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American writer, pilot

Diary (1932-09-27), Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1973)
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Approximately six months after the kidnapping/murder of her son, Charles, Jr., and a month after the birth of her second son, Jon.