He picked up Erich Fromm’s On Disobedience from my bookshelf. “Hey, I’ve been meaning to read this.”*

“Have you read Fromm’s The Art of Loving? It’s one of the most influential books of my life.”

“Yeah! That is a really great book!”

And then, my heart exploded into a hundred thousand sunbursts.

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*may not be the actual dialogue, but it’s the gist.