The manager once called me the "best freak" in his stable, and, sad as it sounds,I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
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It may not sound like much, but for me, it was a freedom I had rarely known.
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TAKE ONE STORY, viewd from two different angles. (查看原文)
Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily, at an arcade, with the little boy in tawny pants dropping pennies into the Erie Digger machine, and the other ends badly, in a city morgue, where one worker calls another worker overto marvel at the blue skin of the newest arrival. (查看原文)
"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected.That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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"Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young."
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Some didnot even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they shoud?
"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone,it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
"You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you areg... (查看原文)
