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00:01Tuesday, by Virginia Woolf.
00:06This is Virginia Woolf's final note to her husband, Leonard,
00:10likely drafted on March 25th, 1941.
00:20Tuesday, dearest,
00:25I feel certain that I'm going mad again.
00:30I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times,
00:34and I shan't recover this time.
00:38I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate.
00:44So, I am doing what seems the best thing to do.
00:50You have given me the greatest possible happiness.
00:54You have been in every way all that anyone could be.
00:58I don't think two people could have been happier
01:02till this terrible disease came.
01:05I can't fight any longer.
01:10I know that I'm spoiling your life,
01:12that without me, you could work.
01:17And you will.
01:19I know.
01:21You see,
01:22I can't even write this properly.
01:26I can't read.
01:27What I want to say is
01:30I owe all the happiness of my life to you.
01:36You have been entirely patient with me
01:38and incredibly good.
01:42I want to say that.
01:45Everybody knows it.
01:46If anybody could have saved me,
01:50it would have been you.
01:53Everything has gone from me
01:55but the certainty of your goodness.
01:58I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.
02:02I don't think two people
02:03could have been happier than we have been.
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