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The Guardian of Love (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, I broke my finger. As with any misfortune—albeit small—it was too good a subject not to write about. One option was to extol the Iranian trait of being grateful not to have endured a larger calamity, such as breaking a leg or worse. Another was to discover the utility—and value—of something as small as the pinky of the left hand. In the end, I opted to focus on something that lightened my heart when I was flat on my face on the sidewalk: kindness.In Farsi, the word for kindne
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