At that moment, I saw the true meaning of unconditional love. “If there is a way to look out for you from the other side,
I will,” a buddy who was dying of chronic renal disease told me on his final night. I still think about it all the time. Since no one had ever told him he was bright before,
My conversation with him about why he failed my test transformed his life. One of my students sent me a note on graduation stating.
That he was really sad (and I believe suicidal, though he didn’t state it). He said that the time he spent working on research with me was the finest of his life.
