TOUCHING STRANGERS
This is a heart-warming story, but you may need to adapt it to your particular situation(s): Yitzak was a survivor. Liberated from a concentration camp in 1945, he had come to America, worked and studied hard, and was now a respected research physicist. His first words endeared him to me. His Slavic accent reminded me of some of the older people in my own family. Two years before, he had been diagnosed with cancer. Now he had come to our retreat for people with cancer to see if he could engage and possibly defeat this enemy with the power of his mind, the aspect of his being he trusted most profoundly. At Commonweal–Cancer Help Program–we touch people a great deal more than was his custom. Disconcerted at first, he would ask, “Vat is all dis, all dis huggy-huggy? Vat is dis luff the strangers? Vat is dis?” But he let us hug him anyway. After a while he began to hug us…
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