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Quote #10
Their understanding of the Lees, and the Lees' understanding of them, deepened significantly when they, too, experienced a child's grave illness. (17.5)
Once again, Neil and Peggy bond with the Nao Kao and Foua over suffering. All four of them are going through every parent's worst nightmare—the sickness of a child—and are struggling to survive with their hearts intact. Though they're still angry with Lia's doctors, the Lees can't help but extend their sympathy. The lesson? Sometimes it takes a good dose of suffering (well, a bad dose) to bring people who don't see eye-to-eye together.