...fairness, he said, does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die. Strangers, the Blue Man said, are just family you have yet to come to know. sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.
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