“There are some advantages to being an old fart like me,” Bryce said. “One of them is experience. I’ve had maybe a thousand times more experience than you have. No offense. And one thing experience has taught me is that life can hammer you hard just when everything seems to be so fine, but life can also drop the most amazing moments of grace on you just when you thought nothing good would ever happen again.” “Let’s go,” the boy interrupted. “In a moment. What you have to do somehow is be grateful for what good you’ve known and for what good will come, in spite of the bad times, because you
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