“I have come to love the thing I most wish had not happened.” — Stephen Colbert When Stephen Colbert said those words in a 2015 interview, the audience went silent. He was speaking about the tragedy that shaped his childhood — the loss of his father and two brothers in a plane crash. It’s hard to imagine loving such pain. Yet Colbert said that without the tragedy, he wouldn’t have become who he is. Somehow, heartbreak became... a portal, a doorway to something very big. I'm
