How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

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These can be summed up in a simple formula: we are not here to love one another.

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We love it that there are capable community volunteers Alice might not otherwise know personally who can come over to her house on short notice and provide that service that helps so much.

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That's why parents talking about their children can be so tedious - other parents, I mean, not me or you - not because we doubt their love, or the child's charms, but because itemizing infinities is obviously the most boring thing imaginable.

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For those of us who have been privileged to contribute to that service, and to have benefited in the process from Ms. Forbes' nurturing, mentoring, and occasional tough love, we can only pray that just one voice will be stilled by her death, not that of many others.

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"Not responding in anger or retaliation may be the kindest, most supportive thing we can do for those we love, " she says.

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