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"This younger brother, then, is asking his father to tear his life apart...Ordinarily when our love is rejected we get angry, retaliate, and do what we can to diminish our affection for the rejecting person, so we don't hurt as much. But this father maintains his affection for his son and bears the agony." (Ch. 2 - Two Lost Sons)