"One of the reasons that I was leaving my workplace was that it was squashing my care for humanity. I had to put on a fake personality for so much of my day that I was becoming accustomed to seeing mostly the surfaces of things, and in doing so I had forgotten to look at people as more than being either a convenience or an inconvenience to me. I had ended up disassociating myself from my environment as a defensive measure, which had made me look upon Selma as little more than a nuisance, and now here this nuisance was sitting across from me with moist eyes and had just offered me a gift given out of what little money she had. "