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Time wastes too fast...by *nami64

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so why this title? let me explain (if you don't cry, you have no soul):
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Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha, enjoyed reading together “Tristram Shandy” by Laurence Sterne.
As Martha lay dying in their bed at just 33, she began writing a passage from the book but too weak, Thomas finished it, transforming the passage into a final dialogue between husband and wife:

[written by Martha] Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity life follows my pen. The days and hours of it are flying over our heads like clouds of windy day, never to return - more every thing presses on -

[written by Thomas] and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, every absence which follows it, are preludes to the eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

It seems like Thomas didn’t have the strength to finish the entire quote: —Heaven have mercy upon us both.

After his wife’s death Jefferson folded the paper with a lock of her hair inside and stashed the cherished memento in a secret drawer beside his bed, where it remained until his death.
Its wear showed that it was opened and refolded often.

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note: i read a lot about Jefferson, i know what happened after her death, what he did but there is one thing i'm sure about: he never recovered totaly from her death and she was the only woman he ever really loved. I KNOW I SHOULD STOP DRAWING THEM BUT I CAN'T!!! LEAVE ME ALOOOOONE!!!
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~DemonicVoodooDoll 3 days ago Hobbyist General Artist

I have a feeling that they both would appreciate you drawing them. You give them so much life its hard to stop looking at your drawings of these two

~Uchiha-Karen May 3, 2013

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This is so beautiful and sad. =/

~SxyTomJefferson Apr 24, 2013 New member

Your depiction of my great affection for my lovely wife Martha is touching and most accurate. 'Tis a life-smothering blow to lose one's true love too soon, but one must go on though with a heavy heart laden with tears.

Thank you for your lovely imagination.

*nami64 Apr 24, 2013

no problem mate!
et merci

~Soulfoxii Apr 6, 2013

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~HeartbeatOfMoments Feb 19, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

I had no idea about this romance...never really looked into our President's here in the USA like that. But I am a huge lover of love...thanks for introducing me to their romance and their words.

~GhostRidersGirl Feb 6, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

If I may do you know what she was sick from? So sad you do their love so beautifully.

*nami64 Feb 7, 2013

she always have been weak (her health was probably the main preocupation of Thomas Jefferson) and she never recovered from the birth of their last daughther. she died after 4 months of agony.

~GhostRidersGirl Feb 7, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Just from the childbirth? Oh my Lord, that poor couple, I hope to see more of your work, its gorgeous.

Thank you for telling me, I was curious.

~lucasblahblah Dec 24, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

This is beautiful :0

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