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I clearly explained
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my way of looking at the matter on the occasion
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of the death of my very dear best friend,
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Count von Hatzfeld.
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He was just thirty-one like myself.
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I do not grieve for him but from the bottom of my heart
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for myself and for all who knew him as well as I."
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Now ironically,
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at age thirty-one how many more years
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did Mozart himself have to live?
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Yeah, four. He did not make it to thirty-six.
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He wrote this