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“I wanted you to see something about her - I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do… she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

TEARSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

“But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realised he wanted me to hear every word he said.”

goddamnit!!!!