From The Daily Om.
Our perception of humanity as a whole is, to a large extent, dualistic.
We paint people with a broad brush: some are like us, sharing our opinions and our attitudes, while others are different.
Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss.
Rodriguez' son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001; el-Wafi's son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence.
Rebecca Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American novelist and professor of philosophy.
She has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Goldstein, born Rebecca Newberger, grew up in White Plains, New York, and did her undergraduate work at Barnard College.
Susan notes: inspirational is an understatement.
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