"Why do we wait?" Dr. Farah asked. The group was sitting in the clinic garden today. The fluorescent lights of the waiting room had been traded for the dappled sunlight of a Neem tree. "Why do we wait for the funeral to say, 'He was a good man'? Why do we wait for the hospital bed to say, 'I love you'? Why is the past tense the only language in which we are comfortable speaking of virtue?"