This has been a tough one for me. My mother was the main culprit in our family. I hated her for years. Now I have a lot more understanding of what caused her to do what she did. I think understanding, if and when it comes, leads closer to "forgiveness" but that comes after the understanding. I have more trouble now "forgiving" people whose business it is to understand, and who project their problems onto their patients.
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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