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Tobias Wolf is an award-winning American novelist, and he's now the professor in the School

of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.

Now, back in 1972, in his late 20s, he went to Lord's France, where people reported that

miraculous healings were taking place. And he came because he wanted to help. Specifically,

he thought he could help bathe the sick who were arriving in hope of a cure.

Now, to be clear, he wasn't looking for a cure for himself.

In truth, he had no significant physical ailments.

Other than one, he had quite poor eyesight, and so he had to wear glasses, but he hated

wearing glasses, and so he rarely ever did.

And that was the case while he was on this trip.

One day, he was entrusted with a paralyzed two-year-old girl. She's bedridden. She has tubes coming out of her.

She's not in good condition. And his job was to help her board a plane. But when the time came for her

to get aboard the plane, the door was slammed straight in her face. And he couldn't believe it. He started

weeping over her. He started weeping at the wrongness of the world, the cruelty of the world,

that it would care so little about this poor, disabled little girl. And then the door ended up

reopening. And Wolf, he's out there. He's still weeping, but no one even notices because it's so

hot that everybody's

sweating profusely. They just assume it's sweat on his brow. But the people tell him that the door

was shut inexplicably. They didn't mean for it to happen. And so Wolf gets her on the plane.

And the whole time he's rubbing his eyes. He's trying to get the tears out. He's trying to get the sweat out. And he finally gets onto a bus to go back to Lord's France, where he came from. And as he's wiping the sweat and the tears out of his eyes,

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