Or perhaps, there is more to healing than medicine. There is the osmosis of love, one to another, through embrace if you are able, and smiles and looks if you are not. There is closing the door and disinfecting our hands and knowing we have made ourselves the safest we can be. There is the magic of shared experience: what relief, to know that there is something impersonal in this suffering, that there is hope of coming to the end of it! And there are books. Readers know that, when their heart hurts with loss or absence, then a book that they have read before can lessen the ache. Readers, faced
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