the guests of the center as possible. On his last day, he walked to the post office to mail a package. On his way, he saw Carol. She was with her “friend,” a man who had physically abused her in the past. Jim said he “froze in his tracks.” He thought about crossing the street to say good-bye but just stood there. Carol finally motioned to Jim with a slight wave and kept walking with her companion. Jim recounted the end of the story for me recently in a letter. “I wanted to leave the parish on a ‘high,’ knowing that I had done good things and tried to help people in need. As Carol turned the
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