Their call continued for four and a half minutes. Esther told her: “Elizabeth, I’ve got my arms around you,48 and I’m holding you, and I love you.” Elizabeth said she could feel Esther’s embrace, and she loved her, too. Like several others, Elizabeth focused not on herself but on the pain she anticipated among the people she feared she’d be leaving behind: “It just makes me so sad knowing how much harder this is going to be on you than it is for me.”49 They remained silent for a while, then Elizabeth said, “I should be talking. I’m sitting here being quiet, I’m not even talking.” Esther
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