// Couldn't Think of One Optimistic Thing

"I got a call one day for a jumper, a young Spanish girl who was pregnant with aids; truly was one of the doomed. I told her to come of the edge and into my arms and then she said Why should I?"

"What did you say?"

"I was trained to tell her lots of things, about her dreams and the people who will miss her, but I hesitated for one second. In that second I couldn't think of one optimistic thing to say to her. In that one second she could see it, so she spread her arms and jumped..."