"The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if."
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Source : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Source : Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.67, Random House
