Saved From Silence

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Commentary

Some of us have great friends we’ve never met in person. Others’ friends are strictly flesh and blood. My wife understands that writers sometimes develop friendships afar. She and I have one mutual friend who has corresponded with a famous writer (Philip Yancey) over the decades. Knowing that friend—and the writer—it isn’t surprising at all.