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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

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You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgi...more

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There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside th...more

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I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, an...more

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There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would fe...more

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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pic...more

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In the photograph by my bed my other is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will tak...more

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Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took t...more

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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades f...more