Is It Like a Flame?

"i'm wondering if gratitude is like a flame, wherelike, is it?" "The idea that i can light somebody else's candle without my candle going out is an incredibly valuable are you relly thinking about that? Alex, yes. But i know many people who don't believe that," he says. 'I want to keep my powder dry a little bit,' the writer adds. "'This has been so good for me that i don't want to fuck it up' I've never met anyone from ohio whose first sentence to a stranger with a request would be, very, very sorry."