A friend of ours had an unsettled and difficult childhood. She only ever got one Christmas gift from her father, a cherished doll that was later lost in one of many moves after her parents separated. Her mother lived with one man after another, moving often. Yet our friend who had so little as a…
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Happier
A few days ago we attended a talk by an American who has lived with his family in a third-world country for the past 13 years. He remarked that if they had allowed it, the corruption, theft, and poverty there would have torn them down. But they had an anecdote. I thought about all the…