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"Father couldn't have known why I started to cry, but he said all the right things.
"It won't be so bad," he reassured me. "Human beings are remarkable-at what we can learn to live with," Father told me. "If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have," Father said, "then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?"
first I searched 'bear' which of course had tons of results bcs of Susie the Bear and how we need a bear etc.
then 'human' did the trick (and I was going to add 'stronger'). Irving you really have some nicenesses in yr writing, I hold sth agnst you, what?, sth that seems commercial, over-ordinary?
Everyone at the Sacher Bar watched me crying and my father comforting me. I guess that's just one of the reasons it's the most beautiful bar in the world, in my opinion: it has the grace to make no one feel self-conscious about any unhappiness.