Ed Ireland asked Gregory B. Sadler:

What quality makes a character your most loved character?

Gregory B. Sadler That's very tough to say! So often there are characters I particularly like, admire, find attractive, care about -- but for such varied reasons.

If one insists that I pick one single quality, I suppose that I would say a kind of genuine charity -- lovingly acting towards another (in the way and to the degree that they are to be loved), even in their flaws, but not pulling any punches in seeing flaws, wrongs or vices as such. There's a kind of stark realism and transcendence in that.

I have to add that, reading some author's letters, I see that kind of charity at work in them -- for instance in Flannery O'Connor

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