Clones: The preceding post is the "duplicate"-- the already-submitted and now deleted, corrected post is below.

~S~

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hilda fish, let me try to say this, however imperfectly--

When you "put [her] name out into the world and into history as a person among us all who matters in ways counted and uncounted," you make more concrete our experience of those people we know or encounter in our own lives, with similar life stories.... you help make accessible to us not only those who have overcome, as you describe in Ruby's spirit and successes, but those whose spirits are as yet struggling to overcome.

And perhaps, even, those who seem, to us, to not even be making the struggle at all.


And... to those of us who have struggled-- you bring a healing rain of tears. The thought that you can SEE such.

Thank you for seeing.

~Susan