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Anna - 2010-11-03 10:36:58
Aw babe.You are me and I am you in so many ways. But you're not a fool, even if you feel like one today. {{{{hugs}}}}
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gbw - 2010-11-03 11:02:30
Not a fool dear but you do have so many valid reasons to be disappointed.
Love you {{{hugs}}}
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alison - 2010-11-03 11:30:49
I read recently that inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist. I too am really disappointed about the election and fearful that my own parental experience will not bear fruit. I'm so very sorry about your loss, your book and your hope. So sorry.
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artgnome - 2010-11-03 12:03:56
I am sorry for your feelings of despair. The only way I have been able to make peace with this world and how it operates is this: regardless of what I believe about the afterlife, I believe there is one. The only way this world makes sense to me is to see it as a testing ground that determines how we spend eternity. Are we willing to sell out for the now, or invest in a better longevity. I hope this comforts you in some way. Please don't think of it in terms of heaven/hell either. I like the film "What Dreams May Come" for it's interpretation of the afterlife, that it is what you bring into it, it's of your own creation and investment.
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beanie - 2010-11-03 12:06:12
I don't believe you are a fool. Kids don't understand about having a "treasure". They just look at it as a battered book.
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purple chai - 2010-11-03 12:44:15
You're not a fool, you're a mother. I can't remember the precious things I'd saved that are gone because I "lent" them to someone who either didn't know or didn't care what it meant to me. As for Johnny Tremain ... *sigh* I am the librarian who could never get her own kid to read that book. Even now every so often, Robin will ask me if I will still give her $10 to read that book and I say yes and she says well thanks, but she still won't. A running joke. Ha. Ha. Teenagers just generally suck, you know.
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Poolie - 2010-11-03 18:24:16
You are not a fool, LA. Hardly that. Wolf couldn't begin to comprehend what that book meant to you. And about Alex and his forgiveness problems....I can relate. There are people in the world who refuse to let go of things done wrong. They would rather be unhappy, and for those of us who cannot understand that choice, it seems like such a waste. My heart goes out to you. Your book may be gone but your soul is still strong. Never stop loving.
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terri t - 2010-11-03 19:45:18
I think the only fool is the one who gives up. You never give up. I know what you mean about giving someone a treasure and having it discarded as if it had no value at all. I loaned a handmade baby quilt that had belonged to my son to a sister in law who trashed it and threw it away. I wish I had never considered giving it to her but I did. I loaned a neckscarf that had belonged to my mother to another friend who wore it on a cruise and never returned it.....
You can't make people be who they are not...someday Alex may understand what you did for him and I am sure that Wolf will get it as he grows up.
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Stephanie - 2010-11-03 20:42:50
Your pain is coming through loud and clear. I am so sorry.
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Joan - 2010-11-04 02:30:13
Regretfully, what I have learned about sons is that they just don't love us as much as we love them. We keep their hospital bracelet and their first tooth and hair from their first cut as precious items. They destroy our books or our feelings and move forward without a backward glance. I understand the pain that you are feeling, LA.
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