Re: Tearjerkers

[Elizabeth Letterly <eletterl@ABELINK.COM>]

I have two:  The first, _A Home for Jessie_, a dog story I read to my sons
when they were little and haven't dared read again, because, as I was
reading it out loud to them, I sat with a tissue and had to pause repeatedly
to sob.  Incidentally, they all cried too.  Thank goodness it had a happy
ending.

The other, _The Yearling_ -- from the first time I read this and wept over
its ending chapters, I've loved -- it gets me now that I'm older and see its
sweet portrait of a very lonely little boy who is so earnest and
good-hearted.

It's always amazed me how words can touch our hearts so deeply -- how is
that?

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