"Mattie had the knack of life. While he was alive he knew how to be alive and keep his heart open even when it was broken. If I had to say what he did I suppose I'd say that instead of shrinking and closing off to the world, Mattie made his heart bigger every time it was attacked so that, eventually, it became like an enormous expase of water - an ocean, maybe - which couldn't be polluted by the insignificant drops of poison the world threw at it.
.... I think I'll try that."
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