People could surprise you. Not just their kindness, but also their sudden ability to express things the right way.
My heart breaks for Charlie Macauley and his wife. Charlie—through the Vietnam War—endured things that he has, quite literally, found to be unendurable. And so he is forever isolated from the world. And yet here is his wife saying so straightforwardly, you can go back there—to the Memorial—any time you want to. And he is struck with the simplicity and her ability to say this. Because the poor man cannot do this in his own life, he cannot say the things he wants to say.
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