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Be Not Afraid CaringChapter 16CaringKarl, eighty-nine, was a rebel against old age, and itdidn’t make caring for him easy. He could get upsetwith you when you didn’t let him walk alone (it wasn’tsafe), or when he couldn’t hear what you were saying(he was nearly deaf). Still, everyone loved him dearly.When his nurse pushed him through the neighborhoodin his wheelchair, people stopped what they were doingto come over and say hello. Children left their playand ran over, showing him dandelions, shaking hishand, telling him their secrets. “Ja, Ja,” he would sayhappily, in his thick German accent, though he didn’tunderstand a word. Teenagers loved him too, becausedespite his age, he was “with it.” He read the papers andknew what was going on, and he was keenly interestedin what they were reading and what they thought aboutcurrent events.Karl never took the love that he received for granted.Given his rocky childhood, which opened with the16