Yearning for surcease from sorrow, I took that bum shoulder to doctors and clinics including Mrs.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Healing Of America'

Suffice it to say that teacher and pupil are looking for the same thing surcease from what a more pretentious playwright might call existential loneliness and that, against all odds, they find it.

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