To love a saint is hard. To be one, that is harder.

Today's story is "Redemption" by Robert F Young. It appeared in the July 1963 issue of "Amazing Stories" on pages 6 to 45 and 51.

Robert Franklin Young (June 8, 1915 – June 22, 1986) was an American science fiction writer.

He remained little-known by the public, in the United States as well as abroad. His career spanned more than thirty years, and he wrote fiction until he died.

His production started in 1953 in Startling Stories, then Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. It mainly consisted of a long list of short stories with a poetic and romantic style which led to his work being compared to Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon.

His most famous short stories are perhaps "The Dandelion Girl" which influenced the director of the anime series RahXephon, and "Little Dog Gone" which was nominated in 1965 for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

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