 And all I did was just open my arms in that universal gesture that, oh baby, this hug is for you. It was like throwing a life ring. She wanted that so desperately. She didn't even go around the counter. She launched up onto the checkout counter, put her knees on the counter and just buried into a total stranger's neck and just wept and wept and wept. And right there in the checkout line of a Goodwill store in a little town,