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but I learned that each person’s heart

was much the same. Some didn’t even

know the Pauls, but came to help,

overcome by thought of what it would

feel like if the tragedy was their own.

In short order the harvest was in

and the machinery moved back to the

farms from where it had come.

Farmers who had brought it still had to

harvest their own fields, for they had

chosen to help a neighbor first.

It was late at night, while our small

group was finishing the feeding, when

the lights from a car turned into the

driveway. Mr. Paul emerged and

approached us to thank us for our work.

“How’s the family?” someone

asked.

Mr. Paul looked down in

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