I was confused and horrified. But while we were at the dinner table with his sulky children, an extraordinary thing happened. A screech of tyres. A crunch of metal. We ran outside to help.
The sheriff touched the woman's shoulder and told her they would be all right. At the hospital, doctors insisted that the injured man stay overnight. His wife didn't know where to stay.
After making pancakes, the sheriff bid the couple goodbye. Hell, he said, when I asked him about the extraordinary gulf between what he had said, and believed, and what he had done, everyone's human, ain't they?
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