<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460533" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0040 For Tara's Friends named and unnamed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They’re trained to do the work of love<br>dispassionately<br>as if they are the most loving friends<br>that you could ever have<br>and, miraculously, <br>there to help you in your hour – no, those vital minutes –<br>of your need (and ours) , with every skill<br>that human beings can devise<br>to save their fellows; <br>if they were angels, <br>could they do a better job? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and today, if we tried to thank them<br>on the phone – they’d have to call us back…perhaps…<br>that’s if we could ever get through – no, <br>sorry, we don’t know their names, that’s<br>why we’re phoning…yes, security, I understand…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or if we left a message, <br>picked up as they, weary, leave their shift<br>that’s been extended due to an emergency or three, <br>they may have difficulty in remembering<br>just which that case was, which they dealt with<br>as lovers even could not, <br>as angels; human beings as human as could be..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or know how many wept, how many<br>held their breath, how many prayed; <br>how many wondered how to pray; <br>how many are more grateful<br>than they might ever put in words -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you nameless ones, <br>I hope that somewhere in your hearts<br>as you take a few hours’ sleep<br>before your next redemption of humanity<br>you may take whatever strength you may ever need<br>from<br>yours truly and sincerely, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her Other Friends</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460533" data-title="0040 For Tara's Friends named and unnamed de Michael Shepherd" data-description="They’re trained to do the work of love dispassionately as if they are the most loving friends that you could ever have and, miraculously, there to help you in your hour – no, those vital minutes – of your need (and ours) , with every skill ..."></div> </div> </div>

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