I am repeatedly disappointed jseal. I am disappointed every time I read about adults harming innocent children. However, because I am disappointed, in my own little corner of the world - I can be there for a child - whether I am able to prevent something hideous from happening to them, or by being there for them after something hideous happens. Because if I can prevent something from happening, that is one less child I will read about in the papers. If I can be there for that child that has gone through something that makes me shudder and become dissapointed, help that child get through it and not become another carbon copy of his/her abuser, then my dissapointment in our culture will never be a wasted emotion because I should expect these things to happen and to continue to happen.

I will never accept that THESE people are as I am - failings and foibles in all. because I am not as they are.

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.