I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. - Sarah Dessen

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

And Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me.” She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.