Some will head home joyfully this Christmas. Others? Not so much. As the latter will tell you, if home is where you’re known, that’s not enough. We want not just to be known, but known and loved.
You can glimpse such a craving in ‘Late Fragment’, by American writer Raymond Carver:
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
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