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I feel strongly everything you wrote and have been working hard on this for many, many years.

What I will say for my father, who had great trauma in his life beginning with losing his own mother when he was 4 to the Spanish flu and then surviving the Holocaust, is that he found, in a sense, a love story he could live in. He loved me and my sister to the ends of the Earth.

The poet John O'Donohue writes that 'Love casts a widening pool of light.'

Does it solve all problems? Not even close. But it is an anchor as one is tossed in the waves.

I feel that, rely on it, in my own life.

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Well now I'm crying. Thank you Fritzie. "He found a love story he could live in" is just about the most gorgeous way to articulate healing that I can imagine.

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