And to make it very clear that we're not preaching here. What we're doing is telling stories. And we're telling our story, and we're telling a lot of other stories, and I think some of the other stories are some of the most moving stories that you'd ever want to read. Yes, a few of them made me cry. In every civilization on earth, that impulse exists and is carried out.
Nothing's ever easy for anybody to say.
You always have to go through a lot of trial and error, a lot of hurt, a lot of learning the hard way. In your lives, you've had your fair share of tragedy, as well. I mean, you didn't get off easy. But everybody's life is shadowed by tragedy. We talk in the book about how six weeks before our son was married, my father died.