Garrison Keillor suffers brain seizure

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18. I love Garrison Keillor. He understands shy persons.

I've read "Leaving Home" so often that if I had a halfway decent memory I'd be able to recite every perfect sentence.

"When I was little I didn't think of grownups as having bare skin; grownups were made of wool clothing, only kids were bare-naked; now I'm older than they were when I was little and I lie naked under a quilt made of their clothes when they were children. I don't know what makes me think I'm smarter than them. ... Everything they went through: the loneliness. the sadness, the grief, and the tears -- it will all come to us, just as it came to them when we were little and had to reach up to get hold of their hand, we knew them by the shape of their legs. ... We're not so smart we can figure out how to avoid pain, and we cannot walk away from the death that we owe."