As we strode that summer road with the energy of the high season all around us, we recalled the stories of history and fiction that had formed our dreams. We examined their respective heroes: Lucy in The Chronicles of Narnia and Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings. Audie Murphy (World War II hero), Corrie ten Boom, Alfred the Great, the martyred saint Perpetua, English abolitionist William Wilberforce. If they could fight and love, defeat darkness, make beauty, why couldn’t we? With each step we imagined the future, each pulse of blood bringing our dreams of bravery into speech. Everything seemed
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