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What is it that makes you feel more than just ordinary sympathy for them?

For me, it’s the amount of detail that is given; people’s attitudes towards Jesse and Dickie (I got seriously annoyed at the parents’ milquetoast responses to Matt quoting “the least of these” scripture), the small hints at their backstories, and Matt’s persistence in befriending them.

Another part is that in this friendship I can see what CS Lewis was talking about, when he said that the absence of one person in a group leads to a different chemistry between all the rest. (I can’t recall the quote off the top of my head, but that’s the gist of it. :P)

Will likely post more musings soon, but my lunch hour got away from me…