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ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Trailer · Table Read

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Speaker 1: Some Buddhist teachings justify taking human life on the grounds
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Speaker 1: of compassion and dire circumstance. One text tells us taking
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Speaker 1: life is unreprehensible when it develops from a virtuous thought.
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Speaker 1: Ada's only thought was that her son should die at
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Speaker 1: peace and the only place and with the only person
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Speaker 1: he'd ever known, comforted and secure in her love, rather
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Speaker 1: than lost and confused alone amongst strangers. There was no malice,
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Speaker 1: no deceit, no attempt to cover up what she had done,
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Speaker 1: because there was no crime committed. On the day Aida
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Speaker 1: took Teddy's life, she believed fully and completely that what
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Speaker 1: she was doing was not wrong. In her mind, she
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Speaker 1: was taking care of her son, just as she always had.
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Speaker 1: John Steinbeck wrote, there are those among us who live
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Speaker 1: in rooms of experience that you and I can never enter.
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Speaker 1: Ada Wells lived with her son in such a room,
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Speaker 1: a room where none of us have ever been, for
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Speaker 1: sixty five years, not because she had to, not out
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Speaker 1: of obligation, but out of love, and her final act
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Speaker 1: for her son was out of love too. Rooms of
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Speaker 1: Experience by Stephanie Summers