The woman smiled. “That’s not exactly how karma works.” “Sorry.” Dorothy hesitated, then said, “How does it work?” “It’s likely that I will spend the rest of my life trying to figure that out,” Xi said. “But that’s the point, isn’t it, to keep learning, to grow, to do more good than harm, to create compassion, to understand that every person you encounter is not there by coincidence? All of us play a role in another person’s life.” “What goes around comes around.”

