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GLAUDE: “Cardinal Gregory put it powerfully. Sorrow unites us. You know? We needed this ritual, because the dead weren’t settled. People didn’t die right, Nicolle. And coming out of my tradition, when folk don’t die right, they haunt. So, you know, I’m thinking of Charlie. When he would slice that golf ball and cuss at the top of his lungs or we would sit down and smoke cigars and talk about how bad we played and how good we would play the next round and thinking about all those folks who just for the moment, the nation shared their grief. Oh, what a first step. What a beautiful step. I’m going to — you know, I’m reminded of the psalmist, you know? He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Maybe the dead will speak to us now. Maybe they can rest now.”