Chapter 17 - THE LAST PIECE OF THE PASTArthur's final legal obligations were completed.
He was free.
But freedom meant little to a man who had spent most of his life running.
He visited the Daniel Bennett center every morning.
He answered phones.
He helped families.
He made terrible coffee.
He occasionally argued with printers.
Claire found it strangely beautiful.
One morning, Arthur looked at her.
"You changed me."
Claire shook her head.
"You changed yourself."
Arthur smiled.
"Perhaps."
Then he looked toward the families entering the center.
"But you reminded me what I had forgotten."
"What?"
"That people are not assets."
Claire waited.
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"They are people."
At eighty-seven, Arthur Bellini finally understood the lesson he should have learned at twenty.
