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Sue, I am very pleased to hear that your health—among other things—is improving! Another prayer answered.
People around me know my love for literature but for Hemingway especially. My principal, who is retiring at the end of the year after nearly 40 years of service, and I were talking just the other day, and he brought up that one of his goals upon retiring is to find a quiet place to sit and read The Old Man and the Sea, primarily because of the grace the old man—Santiago just has never sounded correct—shows in his adventure. I told him then that depite Hemingway’s flaws, I have long felt that he “got” the essentials of life. The quote I shared with you has always spoke volumes to me for different reasons, some very personal. The older I become, the more clearly I realize that the negative will make us stronger if we allow it.
As I said before, it sounds like to me that you are plenty strong. Best wishes as always!
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