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“In fact, I think if Luke hadn’t married me, he might have become a modern-day monastic, a second Saint Herman—a gentle, unflappable man who slept on a bench on a deerskin hide, then moved from Kodiak to the much more isolated Spruce Island, where he pursued a life of solitude but was found by followers because he was good at settling disputes and unafraid of illness, even an epidemic that impacted his closest friends, the native Aleuts. When asked how he could tolerate a life largely alone in the woods, he said, “I am not alone. God is here, as God is everywhere.”
― Megan Nix, Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth