Who is the same person they were 7 years earlier? I hope i have grown and changed, and that im not stuck in the past. That my promises have grown with me. Coloring every day may no longer be appropriate, but something else might be. The spirit, not the letter, of the law.

Eta - i agree, your t broke both the spirit and the letter of the law re her dog.

This strikes me as a glass half full / half empty discussion.