It was not just my tired limbs that were coming to life. It was also my soul, revealing to me the sublime vista it had kept buried for so long. Maria Puder had taught me I had a soul. And now, overcoming a habit of a lifetime, I could see a soul in her. Of course, everyone else in the world was similarly endowed. But most come into this world and leave it without even knowing what they had missed. A soul came forward only when it found its twin, when it felt no need to rely on mere words to explain itself…It was only then that we truly began to live — live with our soul. At that moment, all
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