A story of blindness, brilliance, family love, and the quiet courage that changes everything
Imagine losing your sight at sixteen. Not gradually — but within hours. One evening you are a boy chasing a cricket ball across a sunlit field. By morning, the world has gone to smoke.
Now imagine that twenty years from now, a child somewhere in Pakistan — a child who was born into darkness — sits at a keyboard and writes her first line of code. Because of software you built. Because you decided, in the worst season of your life, that loss was not the end of the story.
This is that story.
It was early December in Lahore — one of those rare winter mornings when the city seems to exhale. The sun sat low and unhurried, spreading gold across the dew-soaked lawns of LUMS, Lahore University of Management Sciences, one of Pakistan’s most prestigious institutions, while a soft breeze carried the faint scent of pine and distant jasmine through the open corridors. Students moved in clusters across the manicured grounds — laughing over coffee, typing with quiet urgency, swaying almost imperceptibly to ghazals drifting from portable speakers.
But Rehan sat alone.
He wore a dark high-neck sweater beneath a charcoal overcoat. His posture was upright — not rigid, but composed, the kind of stillness that comes not from effort but from years of learning to inhabit your own presence fully. Dark glasses caught the soft winter light. One hand rested on his cane, the other held his phone to his ear. His voice — low, measured, unhurried — carried easily into the crisp morning air.
He was speaking with Sarmad, his closest friend since childhood, recently commissioned as an officer in the Pakistan Air Force.
“Bas dua kar, yaar,” Rehan said, a faint smile at the corner of his mouth. Just keep praying, friend. “Results come next week. Let’s see if luck stays loyal.”
Sarmad’s laughter came back warm and easy through the speaker — the laughter of someone who had known Rehan across a dozen versions of his life. They talked about school escapades, about reunions that kept getting postponed, about the strange speed at which life was now moving. There was comfort in it. The kind of comfort that needs no explanation.
Rehan was a final-year Computer Science student — admired by his professors for his precision of thought, respected by his peers for a composure that never tipped into coldness. He moved through the campus with a quiet authority that had little to do with his academic ranking and everything to do with how completely he seemed to belong to himself.
That morning, as he waited for his driver, something shifted in the ambient texture of the courtyard. Above the rustling pages and distant clinking of teacups, he heard it — the delicate chime of bangles. A measured rhythm of soft footsteps. A trace of perfume: floral, modern, barely there.
He did not turn immediately. He listened.
Then came the voice — bright, a little nervous, carrying the particular energy of someone who has rehearsed an opening line and is now reconsidering it mid-delivery.
“Excuse me — are you Rehan? From the Computer Science Master’s final semester?”
He paused, then replied with simple courtesy. “Yes.”
“I’m Natasha,” she said. “I’m visiting from Toronto — studying at McGill. I wanted to use your library for some research. I hope I’m not disturbing you?”
He gestured toward the empty chair beside him. “Not at all. Please, sit.”
Natasha Siddiqui had grown up between two worlds — the ordered calm of suburban Toronto and the layered warmth of Lahore winters, where her grandparents still lived in the same house they had occupied for forty years. She visited every December, drawn back by something she could never quite articulate in either English or Urdu. This year, she had come with a purpose: to write a long-form feature on resilience — on people who had faced the kind of loss that redefines everything, and had built something worth building on the other side of it.
She had heard about Rehan before she ever saw him. A name that appeared in conversations about the university’s top performers. A student developing assistive software for visually impaired children. Someone, people said quietly, who had every reason not to be here and had chosen to be here anyway.
She had expected someone remarkable. She had not expected someone so entirely at ease.
“McGill University,” he said, warm but lightly teasing. “What brings you all the way here?”
“My grandparents live in Lahore,” she said, her voice softening with the kind of nostalgia that surfaces in people who belong partially to a place but can never fully return to it. “I come every winter. But this year I wanted to do something that mattered — write about people who rise above what life takes from them.”
She paused, aware of how clinical that had sounded. “I heard about your work on assistive software for visually impaired students.”
Rehan adjusted his glasses. His voice carried gentle correction. “You mean that I cannot see?”
She flushed. “I didn’t mean it that way.”
“It’s alright,” he said simply. “People see before they understand.”
Something in the quietness of that reply stopped her. She realised she had been bracing for defensiveness — or worse, for performance. She found neither. What she found instead was someone who had long since stopped organising his life around other people’s discomfort.
The campus bell tolled faintly in the distance. A group of students passed.
“Hey, Rehan!” one called out.
He smiled without hesitation, turning toward the voice. “Arif — your project got approved?”
The student laughed with surprise and pleasure. The group moved on.
Natasha stared. “You recognised him just by his voice?”
“Voices are clearer than faces,” Rehan said quietly. “If you listen the right way.”
A strand of her hair moved in the breeze. He tilted his head, just slightly. “You wear bangles,” he said.
Her eyes widened. “How did you know?”
“Because I sensed your presence long before you spoke.”
For the first time in the conversation, Natasha had nothing to say.
They talked for longer than either of them had planned — the kind of conversation that keeps finding new rooms to move into. Universities and winters. Chai versus coffee. The particular chaos of Karachi compared with the meditative stillness of Pakistan’s northern valleys. The strange loneliness of cities that move so fast they never stop to notice anyone.
“In Canada,” Natasha said at one point, stirring her coffee slowly, “life moves so quickly you barely register other people. Everyone’s chasing something — deadlines, warmth, meaning. But here…” She looked out across the lawn: a guard nodding in conversation, the faint sound of an azan from a mosque somewhere beyond the gates, students scattered in the pale winter sun. “Here, even silence feels alive.”
Rehan smiled. “That’s Lahore for you. The city never hides its heart.”
She studied him — truly looked, in the way she rarely allowed herself with subjects she intended to write about. Calm expression. Words chosen with care. A rare and specific blend of intellect and humility, without a trace of the self-congratulation that so often accompanies both.
“What about you?” she asked. “Do you ever wish you were somewhere else?”
He considered this honestly. “Your world runs on light,” he said. “Mine runs on sound and thought. I have never seen sunlight or faces — but imagination paints pictures that eyes sometimes cannot.”
He had not intended it to be poetic. It was simply true. And that, she realised, was what made it so devastating.
They met again three days later, by chance, in the campus café. Rehan was at his usual table by the far window, walking two other students through a debugging problem with the patience and precision of someone who genuinely loved the work. When they left, Natasha approached.
“Busy as always,” she said lightly.
He turned toward her voice, a small smile already forming. “Natasha. From McGill.”
“You remembered.”
“Voices are harder to forget than faces,” he said. Then, with a slight tilt of his head: “Sit down. Tell me what’s broken.”
She laughed. “Your library catalogue, for a start.”
“That’s not the catalogue’s fault,” he said. “You need to learn to speak its language. Boolean search. AND, OR. Works even on the most stubborn systems.”
“So now you’re offering library therapy.”
“Only when the patient insists.”
It went like that for an hour — easy, unhurried, genuinely funny in the way that good conversation sometimes becomes when neither person is performing. She noticed, without quite meaning to, how his face changed when he explained something he cared about. How precisely he moved through space. How naturally comfortable he was — not despite everything he had navigated, but somehow because of it.
“You know,” she said after a while, “you’re not like most people I’ve met here.”
He tilted his head. “Meaning?”
“You listen more than you speak.”
A brief pause. “When you lose something precious,” he said quietly, “you start paying attention to what’s left.”
She did not press it. But she carried it with her for the rest of the day.
Two evenings later, they met off-campus — at Glorajeen, a quietly elegant café in Defence Housing Society, one of Lahore’s established residential neighbourhoods, close to both the university and Rehan’s home. Natasha arrived first and chose a table by the window, leaving a clear sightline to the entrance.
A car pulled into the parking area. Rehan stepped out and, with the calm efficiency of someone who has long since made peace with logistics, activated the accessibility features on his iPhone and navigated the entrance steps without pause. Natasha watched from across the room. There was no hesitation in it, no performance of difficulty overcome. It was simply a man arriving somewhere he intended to be.
She tapped the table lightly as he entered. He caught the sound — some combination of hearing and instinct — and moved directly to her table.
“You made it,” she said.
“I did,” he replied, settling into the chair with the ease of someone entirely at home in his own skin. “And my directions weren’t misleading?”
“Not at all.”
The café smelled of coffee and warm pastry. Soft conversation filled the room. Natasha told him about her research, her semester, her life in Toronto — and Rehan listened with the full, unhurried attention that had become, she realised, one of the most disarming things about him.
Then she said, quietly: “I’m leaving soon. Back to Toronto. I didn’t mention it earlier because I wanted to spend this afternoon completely here.”
He nodded slowly. “Then let’s make it worth remembering,” he said.
She looked at him across the small table. The café light was warm and soft. And then, without quite planning to, she asked: “Will you tell me what happened? If you’re willing.”
He was quiet for a moment. Then he set down his cup, and began.
The Evening Everything Changed
“I wasn’t born blind,” he said. “Life used to be full of light.”
He had grown up in a family of quiet warmth and steady routine — his father a disciplined, loving man who carried the household with patient strength; his mother whose hands were always either busy or held out to someone who needed them; his younger sister Mahnoor, who had, from the age of five, treated Rehan as simultaneously her hero and her most reliable source of amusement.
Cricket was his world. Late summer evenings in the park near their home, fielding until the light failed, coming back flushed and happy to a household that smelled of dinner and his mother’s prayers. Sarmad was always there — the best friend whose presence was as natural as air.
Everything felt certain. The way things do before they aren’t.
“It happened just before Maghrib — the evening prayer,” Rehan said. “I was fielding, tracking a high ball. It struck my forehead hard. I thought it was nothing. Within hours, the world began to blur. Colours faded. Faces dissolved into something like smoke. My parents noticed immediately — the redness in my eyes, the way I kept blinking against a light that no longer resolved into shape.”
His father made the call. An emergency ophthalmology appointment. Hours of waiting in a corridor that smelled of antiseptic and institutional quiet. The doctor examined him — dilated his pupils, studied what he found — and then looked up with the particular expression of someone who has delivered this kind of news before and has never found a way to make it easier.
Retinoblastoma. A rare and aggressive eye cancer.
“My father went pale,” Rehan said quietly. “My mother’s hands — I could see them trembling from across the room. Mahnoor pressed herself against me and cried without making a sound, the way children cry when they understand something is serious but do not yet know what it means. Sarmad stayed beside me and held my hand without speaking. His father stood nearby and murmured prayers. Even the servants at home, when we returned, understood that something irreversible had entered through our front door.”
Natasha sat perfectly still. The café sounds had receded entirely. She was somewhere else — in a Lahore hospital corridor, watching a boy’s world quietly dismantle itself around him while everyone who loved him tried to hold it together with their bare hands.
Surgery was scheduled within the week. There was no time for anything except acceptance.
“The night before,” Rehan said, “I lay awake listening to the house. My mother’s prayers. My father’s footsteps — back and forth, back and forth, the sound of a man carrying something too heavy to put down. Mahnoor had fallen asleep beside me with her hand on my arm. I didn’t move her.”
The morning of the surgery, the family drove to the hospital in a silence that held everything. Rehan remembered the warmth of his father’s hand guiding him from the car. The way his mother whispered prayers against his hair. The moment, at the pre-operative doors, when he turned back toward them.
“I wanted to say something,” he said. “Something that would make it easier for them. But the words stuck. All I could do was smile — this small, inadequate smile — as if to say: don’t worry, I’ll be fine.”
He paused. His expression was calm. But his voice, for just a moment, carried the weight of that boy at those doors.
“And then the doors closed. And their faces were gone.”
What Darkness Actually Feels Like
When Rehan woke from surgery, the ceiling above him moved slightly in and out of focus. His throat burned. His body felt distant, as if it belonged to someone else temporarily. The first thing he registered was warmth — his mother’s hand on his forehead, trembling. His father’s voice somewhere beyond, speaking to a doctor in the careful, controlled tone of a man managing his own collapse. Mahnoor’s sobs, raw and free, filling the room without restraint.
And Sarmad — sitting nearby, pale and exhausted, eyes wet, holding himself together by a thread.
“I tried to speak,” Rehan recalled. “My lips barely moved.” His mother understood. She smiled through her tears and whispered: Bas, Rehan. Shukriya kehna baad mein. Abhi sirf aaram. Enough, Rehan. Thank them later. For now, just rest.
He could not see their faces clearly. Only shapes, movements, the soft geometry of people he loved, rearranged into something he would have to learn to read in entirely new ways.
“But even then,” he said, “I could feel every one of them. My mother’s hand — warm, trembling. My father’s silence — heavy with the effort of holding himself upright for all of us. Mahnoor’s sobs. Sarmad’s stillness. Every one of them was carrying something they had not been asked to carry. And the love in that — the love in the fact that they did it anyway, without being asked — was more vivid to me than anything I had ever seen with my eyes.”
He stopped. In the café, something in the quality of silence had changed. Natasha’s coffee sat untouched and cold. She had not noticed.
The weeks that followed at home were, by his own account, the hardest of his life.
“Every corner of the house reminded me of what I had lost,” he said. “The world I had navigated with my eyes — easily, thoughtlessly, the way you breathe — was gone. I had to learn the house again with my hands. Every doorframe. Every step. Every object on every surface. I depended on my parents for things I had never once thought about. Pouring water. Finding a chair. Walking to the bathroom without stumbling.”
Friends disappeared — not cruelly, but in the gradual way that people sometimes do when they do not know what to say and silence becomes easier than effort. Calls grew infrequent. Visits stopped. The laughter and easy teasing that had filled his days — the texture of ordinary friendship — simply withdrew.
“I could feel my parents working so hard to protect me from their own grief,” he said. “My mother’s hands on my face carried both love and fear. My father’s voice — always steady, always warm — sometimes caught slightly, like a record skipping. Mahnoor tried so hard to be cheerful. She would crack terrible jokes and then laugh at them herself, too loudly, to fill the space where my laughter should have been.”
He was quiet for a moment.
“Their bravery was the most painful thing. Because it was entirely for my sake.”
The Day Sarmad Got His Wings — And the Room Held Two Kinds of Tears
It was during those long, difficult months at home that one of the most bittersweet moments of Rehan’s recovery arrived — wrapped, as such moments often are, inside someone else’s joy.
Sarmad had always wanted to fly. It was a dream they had shared since boyhood — lying on the roof on summer nights, tracking the blinking lights of aircraft crossing the Lahore sky, making each other promises in the dark. One day we’ll both be up there. Rehan had imagined it differently — perhaps engineering, perhaps aerospace — but the dream of the sky had belonged to both of them equally. It was the kind of promise that teenage boys make without knowing how much weight they are placing inside a single sentence.
When the Pakistan Air Force selection results arrived, Sarmad came directly to Rehan’s house. He did not call ahead. He simply appeared at the door, still in his outdoor shoes, breathing hard, the letter clutched in one hand.
“Yaar,” he said. His voice broke on the single word.
He had been selected.
What followed was one of those moments that resist simple description — because it was simultaneously the most joyful and the most painful thing Rehan had experienced since losing his sight. Sarmad’s mother wept openly. His father stood very straight and very still, the way men sometimes do when they are trying to contain something that simply cannot be contained. Rehan’s own parents embraced Sarmad as though he were their own son — because in every way that mattered, he was.
And Rehan held his friend. He could feel Sarmad’s shoulders shaking — tears of pure joy, of relief, of a dream that had survived years of preparation and self-doubt and finally, finally broken through into reality.
But Rehan also felt, in the quiet space behind his own smile, something he did not say aloud. The sky they had once promised each other — he would never see it. He would never watch Sarmad’s aircraft bank against the clouds or catch the light on its wings. He would never fulfil his own half of that rooftop promise. The dream had carried them both for years. Now it would carry Sarmad alone.
“I held him and I said: Mubarak ho, yaar — Congratulations, friend. And I meant it with everything in me,” Rehan told Natasha, his voice even and careful. “But there was also something in that moment — something that sat quietly beneath the happiness — a grief for the version of us that was no longer possible. For the boy I used to be, who had looked at the same sky and believed that anything was still ahead.”
He paused. Outside the café window, a plane drew its slow white line across the Lahore evening.
“Sarmad knew,” Rehan continued. “He did not say anything. He simply held on a little longer than he needed to. That was enough. That is the thing about people who truly love you — they know when words are the wrong instrument.”
The moment passed. The celebration continued. Mithai was brought. Prayers were said. Sarmad’s father called relatives with a voice full of pride. Mahnoor danced in the kitchen when she thought no one was watching. And Rehan sat in the middle of all of it — smiling, present, genuinely glad — carrying his private grief the way you carry something precious: carefully, and without complaint.
It was, he said, one of the moments that taught him the most important thing he knows about love: that real love is not diminished by loss. It expands to hold it.
The Day Light Returned — Through Sound
It was Sarmad, again, who changed everything — this time with a single conversation over evening tea.
He arrived one quiet winter afternoon carrying the particular energy of someone who has found something they cannot wait to share. Over chai with Rehan’s father, he spoke about what technology was doing for visually impaired people across the world — computers operated entirely by voice, smartphones that narrated the screen aloud, software that transformed written text into sound. He spoke about it the way he had always spoken about things he believed in: with the specific, infectious certainty of someone who is not trying to convince you so much as share something true.
Rehan’s father listened. And within a week, he had found and engaged a specialist instructor who worked with visually impaired students through adaptive technology.
“That single decision,” Rehan said simply, “changed everything.”
The instructor introduced him to screen readers — JAWS and NVDA — software that translated the digital world into audio, turning every line of code, every document, every website into something navigable by ear and touch. For the first time in months, Rehan sat at a keyboard and felt the particular electricity of a mind engaging with a problem it was built for.
“It wasn’t just software,” he said. “It was a door opening. I had thought that losing my sight meant losing my connection to the world of ideas, of making things, of solving problems. What I discovered was that the world of ideas does not live in your eyes. It lives in what you are willing to reach for.”
His father also brought him a smartphone equipped with VoiceOver accessibility features. It became, over the years that followed, something close to a companion — his compass through a world that had been designed for people who could see, but which yielded, through persistence and technology, far more than most people would expect.
Slowly, life reassembled itself into something new.
Mahnoor became his most devoted collaborator — sitting beside him for hours, reading his notes aloud, correcting his pronunciation, arguing cheerfully about the right word for something, erupting into laughter at nothing in particular. In a household navigating profound loss, she had decided, with the instinctive wisdom of someone who loves without agenda, that joy was also necessary.
“Some light,” Rehan said, “doesn’t come from the sun. Some of it comes from the people who refuse to let a room stay dark.”
He completed his O-Level examinations on a specially adapted laptop, under provisions arranged by the school and the examinations board. When the results arrived, his mother held the paper with trembling hands while his father whispered Alhamdulillah — praise be to God — over and over, very quietly, as though saying it too loudly might disturb something fragile.
Rehan reached out and touched their faces. He felt the shapes of their smiles. The contours of joy that his eyes could not see but his hands could read perfectly.
His A-Levels followed. Then a university admission earned entirely on merit — no accommodations beyond access, no adjustments to the standard. When the letter arrived, his mother cried again. Different tears this time. The kind that come when something long hoped for finally becomes real.
“For the first time in years,” he said, “I felt as though life had embraced me — not as someone incomplete, but as someone reborn.”
Natasha had not spoken in a long time. She became aware of this gradually — the cold coffee, the noise of the café reasserting itself around her, the soft light of the Lahore evening pressing against the window.
She looked at the man across the table. The same composed, quietly confident person she had met three days ago on a sunlit campus bench. The same unhurried voice. The same stillness.
She understood now what that stillness had cost.
After a long silence, she said: “Rehan. May I ask something?”
“Of course.”
She hesitated. “Is Sarmad — is he still close to you?”
Rehan smiled. “More than ever. He is engaged to my sister, Mahnoor.”
Natasha went very still.
He sensed it — the particular quality of a silence that is not emptiness but shock. A faint smile touched his lips.
She composed herself. “That’s — that’s beautiful,” she managed.
He told her then about his current project: software designed to make coding platforms fully accessible to visually impaired children in Pakistan — children who had the aptitude for technology but no tools designed with them in mind. A foreign company, he said, had taken serious interest. They had offered him a position in Vancouver, with six months of intensive training at their head office.
“It could change my life,” he said. “But my parents have given everything for years. They deserve rest now. Ease. They deserve to have their son nearby.”
The café had grown quieter around them. Outside, the Lahore evening was settling — that particular quality of winter dusk in the city, the air cooling quickly, lights beginning to surface against the darkening sky.
Natasha picked up her handbag. She smoothed the edge of her shawl. Then she looked at him with the expression of someone who has just understood something they had been circling for days.
“Rehan,” she said quietly. “Thank you. For all of it.” She paused. “I would like to meet again before I leave.” Then, as though she had decided something: “I may also need to change my flight.”
They walked out together into the cool evening. She watched him move with his navigation cane — unhurried, precise, entirely present — until his driver guided him toward the waiting car. She stood on the pavement until the car had turned the corner and disappeared, her hair lifting in the winter wind.
What She Said at 3 a.m.
Sleep did not come easily that night for Natasha. It rarely does when something has shifted in you and you know it.
She lay awake replaying his voice — not what he had said, exactly, but the quality beneath it. The particular register of someone who has survived the unsurvivable and come out the other side not bitter, not broken, but — and this was the word she kept returning to — clear. As if the loss had burned away everything unnecessary, leaving only what was real.
She picked up her phone at just past three in the morning. She looked at his name for a long moment.
Then she called.
It rang twice. He answered, his voice carrying the calm of someone who sleeps lightly and wakes without disorientation.
“Natasha.”
“Rehan.” She took a breath. “I don’t want to spend time on long conversations. I just want to say one thing.” Another breath. “I think it is time for us to walk together. As partners.”
A silence. Not the silence of indecision, but of a man absorbing something he had not anticipated, letting it settle before he responded to it honestly.
“Natasha,” he said finally, his voice gentle but serious, “life with me is not simple. My path is rough. Whoever walks beside me carries more than she may imagine.”
“I’ve thought about that,” she said. Her voice was steady now. “And I still choose this path.”
He was quiet for another long moment. When he spoke again, there was something different in his voice — the particular seriousness of a man about to say something that means everything.
“Then I will send my parents to your home,” he said. “Let them speak first. The way it should be done.”
It is the way of families like his — and like hers — that such things are not arranged between two people alone. That the families meet, that elders speak, that the matter is carried with the proper weight it deserves. It is not merely tradition for its own sake. It is the acknowledgment that a marriage is not only two lives joining but two families opening their doors to each other.
Natasha understood this. She had grown up between two worlds, and in this moment she was grateful for both.
She laughed — genuine, a little undone. “Traditional till the end,” she whispered. “I like that.” A pause. “You should know — had you answered any other way, I had decided to call Sarmad. He is my first cousin.”
The silence that followed was the sound of a man recalibrating everything he thought he knew about the shape of coincidence.
“Oh my God,” Rehan said quietly. “The world really is small.”
“Or,” she said, “it is exactly the right size.”
Before she hung up, she said one last thing — her voice soft, certain, and completely unafraid:
Wherever life takes us — Lahore or Canada — my eyes will follow yours.
What He Understood in the Dark
Rehan held the phone long after the call ended, sitting in the stillness of his room while Lahore slept outside his window. The city at this hour was quieter but never entirely silent — a dog somewhere, the distant sound of a gate, the faint rhythm of a city breathing.
He thought about Sarmad — his oldest friend, now his future brother-in-law, connected to this woman he had met three days ago by a thread he never knew existed. He thought about his parents, asleep down the hall, who had carried so much for so long and who deserved to open their door to good news. He thought about Mahnoor, who would laugh about this for years.
And then he thought about something simpler.
He had lost his eyes at sixteen. He had lost the cricket evenings, the faces of his friends, the particular pleasure of watching the world shift colour at dusk. He had lost things he still sometimes grieved, quietly, in the way you grieve things that cannot be restored but can be carried.
But sitting in that room, in that silence, he understood something he had perhaps always known but never found words precise enough to hold.
Sight and vision are not the same thing.
Sight is what the eyes do. Vision is what you move toward.
He had never lost his vision. Not once. Not even in the darkest weeks at home, when the house felt like a maze and his friends had stopped calling and his mother tried to hide her grief in the warmth of her hands. Even then — especially then — he had known, with the clarity of someone who has been stripped of everything peripheral, what mattered and what did not.
He had moved toward it ever since.
We are all navigating in partial darkness, he thought. All of us, in our own ways, learning the shape of the world by feel — by the warmth of the people who stay, by the sound of voices we recognise, by the particular chime of someone approaching whose presence we sensed before they spoke.
The ones who endure are not the ones who can see everything clearly. They are the ones who keep moving toward the light they can feel but not yet name.
Outside his window, the first pale suggestion of dawn was beginning to soften the sky over Lahore — that quiet, unhurried light that arrives before anyone has thought to ask for it.
He had lost his sight at sixteen.
He had never, not for a single day, stopped seeing.
Some losses break you open. What grows in that space — if you let it — is larger than what was lost.
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