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Nellasofdoriath t1_j2bi1sb wrote

"One man who turned him away saw Withey snow blowing the cars and approached him in tears to apologize, saying he couldn’t sleep that night knowing he had denied Withey shelter."

This haunts me. I hope those people think about what they did for a good long time

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bruinsforevah t1_j2d9mtt wrote

It was a blessing in disguise, as the man himself said. All the people who refused him HAD to in order for all the other people to be saved. It's like the movie "It's A Wonderful Life." If he didn't exist, he wouldn't have been around to save them. If just 1 of the houses he went to let him in (I would have), it's possible several of the people he saved wouldn't have made it. Just a little analogy. Glad it ended well for all.

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Nellasofdoriath t1_j2e6onv wrote

Yeah I don't think their finding a school or making it that far was inevitable. They could well have all died and for what, so someone's tv didn't get stolen? Let that be a lesson to us.

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coreybc t1_j2e2ro6 wrote

I can imagine they must have felt more and more sickened as the news of more deaths kept coming throughout the blizzard. I cannot imagine.

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