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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

Emily Dickinson
Bereavement, Might, Eccentric
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.