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Soooooo whyyyyyyy is it so important to dig up memories that have well been forgotten....??????????

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To see the patterns that you've set up for yourself, see the choices you made and make better choices next time.

You learned certain coping mechanisms that may not be healthy. Now you can learn more healthy ones.

The abuse may have kept you from growing emotionally. Now you can finish your growing process.

Knowing what you went through now gives you empathy and understanding for others that suffered the same injustices.

It gives you strength you might not otherwise have. It's the trials, the hard times, the exercising of your will that gives you that strength.

Knowing the time wasted, the joy missed, the love and protection not experienced in your childhood and all the rage and resentment that goes with that knowledge that makes you move forward and become who you really were intended to be. Without all the good extracted from those experiences, you wouldn't have exercised emotional and mental "muscles" to conquer other injustices in your life. It's given you increased strength and increased knowledge and understanding for the future.

ABOVE ALL, know that it WAS NOT your fault! You are NOT slimy, dirty or anything else negative. You can now take a negative experience and turn it inside out and find all the good that you learned from it. Seems to me you are on that threshold at this very moment. Take it from someone who has been there. You can take my hand and I'll lead you but it's YOUR choice. YOU have the power, the will and the stength to make that choice for YOU... Or... take someone else's hand better suited. The call is yours, Sweetheart!