Excerpt from ONLY BY YOUR TOUCH, by Catherine Anderson
"Jeremy (six year old) asked, 'Did God make those baby chipmunks, Ben?'
"' He did ', said Ben (Shosone veterinarian).
"' Are all of them my brothers and sisters, too?'
"'They are,' Ben said in that same oddly quiet way. 'And if you remember that when you become a man, Jeremy, you will be extraordinary.'
"'What's 'strodinary mean?'
"Ben thought for a moment. 'It means you may have to walk through life alone, that few will come behind you and only a very special person will chose to walk beside you.'
"Won't that be lonesome?'
"Ben fllicked Chloe (Jeremy's mother) a searching look. ' Sometimes, yes. But if you know you're walking the right way, you grow to accept the loneliness'"
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