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every goodbye is a tiny rehearsal for the one nobody gets to practice.
means The act of leaving someone or splitting something into separate pieces — whether a farewell, a separation, or the line where combed hair divides.
from From Old English 'dǣlan' lurking behind the verb 'part,' but the word itself comes through 'part' from Latin 'pars, partis' — a portion, a share. The '-ing' simply turns the splitting into an event. So a 'parting' is literally a making-into-parts: of a crowd, of hair, of two people who used to be one 'we.'
- sea split
- Moses' parting is cinema's oldest miracle flex
- hair line
- the head's parting can subtly betray your handedness
- sweet sorrow
- Shakespeare coined the phrase for Juliet's balcony exit
- parting shot
- named for retreating Parthians firing arrows backward
- final word
- a parting gift softens departures we'd rather not make
the beatles breakup — band dissolved in 1970 after 10 years together
partition of india — british india divided into india and pakistan in 1947
dissolution of soviet union — ussr split into 15 independent states in 1991