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Quote #10
"No," the preacher said. "No, I do not. I've hoped and prayed and dreamed about it for years. But I don't think she'll ever come back." (24.33-34)
The preacher finally faces his number one fear: that his wife will never return. He's been hiding from it for seven years, keeping himself holed up in his turtle cave. Finally, he says the words out loud: she's not coming back. And just saying those words, while scary and painful, gives him the strength to move on and look beyond himself again. Like, at his daughter, who's been standing there for seven years waiting for him to notice her.