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What My Speech Defect Taught Me

In our free time one Saturday afternoon, she and I sat together on a patio looking across the Umbrian hills at Assisi. Several of our fellow participants wandered up, chatting animatedly with each other. They glanced at us but continued their conversation among themselves.

One of them said, “Where is everybody?”

Another said, “Nobody’s here.” They strolled off toward town without acknowledging us.

After a moment of looking into the distance, my colleague turned to me and said wistfully, “I wonder what it would take to be somebody.”

Don’t we all, I thought. We all want to be somebody. To matter. To feel in our gut that the world wouldn’t be quite the same without us. (read more)

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