...«Το φως έχει βγει από τη ζωή μου»...heartbreaking...Theodore Roosevelt's diary on Valentine's day...

...after his wife and mother died on the same day 1884
In his ever-present pocket diary on February 14, 1884, Theodore Roosevelt simply wrote an X above one striking sentence "The light has gone out 
of my life"
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In a short, privately published tribute to Alice, Roosevelt wrote: She was beautiful in face and form, and lovelier still in spirit; 
As a flower she grew, and as a fair beautiful young flower she died. 
Her life had been always in the sunshine; there had never come to her 
a single sorrow; and none ever knew her who did not love and revere 
her for the bright, sunny temper and her saintly unselfishness. 
Fair, pure, and joyous as a maiden; loving, tender, and happy. 
As a young wife; when she had just become a mother, 
when her life seemed to be just begun, and when the years seemed 
so bright before her—then, 
by a strange and terrible fate, death came to her. 
And when my heart's dearest died, the light went from my life forever.

Valentine’s day already in 1884?? 
I thought its modern day invention
What is really sad is that Theo lost his wife and his mother on the same day.

i-rena