Profound piece Barb…wow. Those passages still have me shaken—how curious, she’d give you that book?…She saw you—she saw your pain and how touching that one life, even if not for long—was enough to tell you:
You matter. You didn’t have to continue a life of suffering—that others could be there to help you.

Loved this piece…hated that that man was in your life—and for a subsequent time—he’s grotesque to say the least…

Ugh-some humans truly disgrace us as “rational” beings. Like how???…I can’t.