Love the way you used Hemingway’s shortcomings to extrapolate on the goodness of core values, and the sad, cautionary warning about all children who pay & pay & pay & pay for adult men’s “my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours” territorial pissings.
Great read! You might find solace in this essay I wrote about the work of one very courageous, relentless Dr. Rola Hallam about her work to save the children of Syria from being constantly killed in bombings.
People like you or I may have little idea of what to do to curtail such horrors… but this amazing, inspirational woman does!