Wonderful writing. The issue of judging people without knowing the facts reminds me of an old friend of mine. I had heard the judgmental conversations of others proclaiming her socially inept purely because she had remained a singleton for most of her adult life and on into her early old age. They did not know that she had lost her fiancee in a climbing accident many years before. He had been secured by the same rope that looped to her. She never got over the horrific trauma of the tragedy but soldiered on bravely despite all.