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In this essay, the author describes a pivotal moment early in her analysis that served to restore her sense of hope and self-reflectiveness during the crisis of her husband's cancer diagnosis and treatment. Her analyst's personal gesture at that pivotal moment took on a multiplicity of meanings as her analysis unfolded and grounds the author's discussion of the curative power of mutual influence in psychoanalysis.