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There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit’.  It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over and let it go.  It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives.  It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.

[Ellen Goodman]