I am not a smart man, particularly,
but one day, at long last,
I stumbled from the dark woods of my own,
and my family’s,
and my country’s past,
holding in my hands these truths:
that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness;
that mongrels make good dogs;
that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
This much, at least, I’ve figured out.
I know this much is true.

- Wally Lamb
From I Know This Much is True