February 18, 2003
Tanya Shaffer on the kindness of strangers
"Here's what I love about travel: Strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep -- more tender, less jaded -- than you were when you woke up."
--Tanya Shaffer, "Looking for Abdelati" Salon, Feb. 7, 1999
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