"All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food."

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...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer