ELEORA

On the 28th March, 1941, aged fifty-nine, she drowned herself
in the river Ouse, near her Sussex home.

"Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we
can't go through another of those terrible times. And I
shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I
can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing
to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness.
You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't
think two people could have been happier till this terrible
disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am
spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And
you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly.
I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness
of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me
and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows
it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.
Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.
I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we
have been."

VIRGINIA WOOLF

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