She pulled into a parking space on the side of the road, put her hand to her chest, and sat for a bit. Then she said that the man already knew he was the one in the wrong, and being wrong had embarrassed him. Since he didn't like feeling that way, he unloaded his bad feelings onto her.

"Huh?" we'd said.

"Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

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