Julie Bogart, a regular reader and commenter on this blog, has a story about forgiveness worth reading at her site. You can interact there or even here. Here’s how it begins:
I remember when my parents got divorced, people used to tell me, “Time will heal your pain.” I hated that rhetoric. Why should my dad and his new wife get away with wrecking our family by virtue of time’s ability to heal, to make us forget, to help us move on? So I vowed that time would not heal, that I would not forget, that, in fact, the pain would last…. [Please click on her name above to read the rest.]

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