"After he told me that his younger brother had been knifed and his eyes seemed to be pleading with me to do something to comfort him, I spent fifteen or twenty minutes giving him the thoughts that had helped me at times when I had suffered. Then he said, 'If my brother dies I will die at the same moment. That’s how close we are.' I felt foolish for having tried to solve things. There is a kind of pain that is far beyond words, and I was too busy being conscientious to notice it. He simply needed someone to be with."