For Charles, courageous presence is accompanying his father to Sloan Kettering to discuss his inoperable cancer. For Steve, it’s leading a memorial service for his best friend’s young daughter, who fell to her death off an ocean cliff. For Tracy, it is being torn apart by both grief and love as she sits at the bedside of her dying mother while holding her newborn son. For Jackson, it is going to a maximum-security prison to sit face-to-face with the man who murdered his mother. For Terry, it is allowing his body to tremble and shake for three days while the contractions of old sexual traumas
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