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“We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.”

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Book:Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death

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Source: Unusual Associates: A Festschrift for Frank Barron

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