To be betrayed by one you love and whom you believe loves you may be the worst emotional wound a person can ever suffer. Does the wound ever heal? Is betrayal not the poisoned arrow?
It is not only children who run away. Grown people do it, too. With children, we're apt to call it an act of defiance. With a grown man, we're at a loss to explain it. But I strongly suspect it is a cry of pain.
The Man Who Ran Away, first broadcast over CBS Radio Mystery Theater on October 2, 1975.
