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The Ministry of Listening

Sometimes the best help we can give is a sensitive heart and a listening ear. Let's remember to listen. Anton Chekhov understood a newly bereaved parent's compelling need to talk about their loss. Here are excerpts form his short story, Misery. From ‘Misery’, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) "With a look of anxiety and suffering Iona's …

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