Sir, - Due to his literal reading of Nuala O'Faolain's words on Brendan O'Donnell, Paul Butler (July 31st) missed the words Nuala didn't write: faced with the same past as O'Donnell, any one of us might behave as he did.Nuala does not write in the language of greeting-card sentimentality. She writes in the language of a courageous yet charitable-minded woman journalist.Sons of God are born every day, but without the Wise Men ever present to remind us to nurture and care for each child as a God, some of them turn out to be Brendan O'Donnells. The miracle is that more of them don't. - Yours, etc., Jeannette F. Huber, Kinsale, Co Cork.