Now you're just putting words in my mouth. Forgiveness is one thing.
[He's forgiven what his family's done to him after all those years, too: the hurts smoothed over, the cruel words forgiven. But hell if it hasn't stuck with him, tainted those rosy childhood memories.
There is, after all, a reason why his trust comes so much less readily these days.]
Forgetting is another. You screw up and you learn from it and you make yourself better-- and you give others the opportunity for that second chance, too. That's how it is.
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[He's forgiven what his family's done to him after all those years, too: the hurts smoothed over, the cruel words forgiven. But hell if it hasn't stuck with him, tainted those rosy childhood memories.
There is, after all, a reason why his trust comes so much less readily these days.]
Forgetting is another. You screw up and you learn from it and you make yourself better-- and you give others the opportunity for that second chance, too. That's how it is.