On two occasions tonight I had to answer the hard question. Earlier in life I would have deflected, not given the best, the most honest answer. But now, I find that Maya Angelou had it right. It's the people who care to overcome barriers that ask the hard question, and the answer is honest because it invites those caring people past the barrier.
And even though I am in Dallas tonight, a friend from Mexico and a friend from Odessa wanted to slip past a barrier in separate conversations and ask me why something was. So I thank my two trusted friends tonight for making me better, for knocking down a barrier that kept them one step more distant from me and me from them.
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