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What a moving essay. This one will stay with me for a long time.

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George is a beautiful man who writes beautifully. I am grateful for his honesty and his openness.

As the author of Hebrews wrote, it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Or, as one midrash puts words into God's mouth: I heal with the weapon with which I wound. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away: blessed be the name of the Lord! May we learn from Him to love our brothers as ourselves and find mercy by being merciful.

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