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If nothing else validates the decency of that man, then the story of Jessie Klines will.†
Chpt 1.3 *
Chapter 38 — Validation.†
Chpt 3.38
The scrapbook of yellowed newspaper clippings—a lifetime of them—vanished in ashes, but it was the awards that she hated losing most, because they represented praise, validation.†
Chpt 3.38
This glorious thing, this prize, was validation of my mother's sacrifice.†
Chpt 3.38
Maybe there is validation in it for every mother and father.†
Chpt 3.38

Definitions:

(1) (validate)
give evidence for the truth or value of; or declare as legally approved
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)