A review by tryingtofindgralternative
The Human Comedy by Don Freeman, Michael Farmer, William Saroyan

5.0

"No," Homer said. "My brother's dead. He's dead, and all the rest of us aren't."
Spangler knew he had failed, but he decided to try again, to keep trying-lies, truth, anything. "I'm not going to try to comfort you," he said, "I know I can't, Nothing can. But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again- in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever."

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They sat quietly on a park bench, not talking. After a while Homer said, "What am I waiting for?"
"Well," Spangler said, not knowing for sure whether he was lying or telling the truth, "you're waiting for the part of him that died to die in you, too—the part that's only flesh—the part that comes and goes. That dying is hurting you now, but wait awhile. When the pain becomes total, becomes death itself, it will leave you. It takes a little time. Be patient with it, you will go home at last with no death in you. Give it time to go. I'll sit with you here until it's gone."

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I wish somebody had told me these words when I needed them the most.