Blaize is twenty-three years old. At some point in our conversation he was telling me about growing up — him and his brother going out to play, the way kids do. His brother got hurt. And Blaise said, almost without thinking about it — that’s just what you did. You went out. Sometimes you got hurt.

He’s twenty-three. And he already understands that you can’t control everything. That’s not something most people learn that young. That’s something life usually has to take from you before you’re willing to accept it.

This is the final episode from Coffee on Raiford in Selma. You’ll also hear what I said when I left.

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