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THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, 30 AUGUST 2004
extract taken from an article by MELANIE PHILLIPS
First published in the Jewish Chronicle, 13 August 2004
This article appears in full on the author's own website. Click to read the full version.
There is surely no more lonely a place than bereavement. The sense of abandonment can be devastating, both for the dying and for those who are left behind. Yet even this state can be transfigured by the kindness of strangers.
On the day before my widowed mother died, five weeks ago today, I was inexpressibly moved by an act of love towards her that went way beyond the call of duty in the Jewish Care nursing home where she lived...
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