http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58015
10 Christians slaughtered over alleged Muhammad cartoon61 injured, 9 churches burned, hundreds displaced after rumored 'insult' to Islam
Posted: October 5, 20077:53 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Rampaging Muslims have killed 10 Christians, injured 61 others, destroyed nine churches and displaced more than 500 people in northern Nigeria, according to eyewitnesses – all because Muslim high school students claimed a Christian student had drawn a cartoon of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, on the wall of the school’s mosque.
The rampage occurred Sept. 28 in the town of Tudun Wada Dankadai, in Nigeria's northern state of Kano.
According to Compass Direct News, which specializes in reporting on Christian persecution worldwide, there are 1,500 students at the high school, called Government College-Tudun Wada Dankadai, of which only 14 are Christians, and only seven of those actually live on campus. The Christian students at the school insist no one ever saw the alleged cartoon, and furthermore that no one in the tiny minority group of Christians would have dared such a feat, especially during Ramadan.
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What a disgrace to Islam. I am embarrassed. What mature Islamic person of faith believes rumors of children and run like pagans to slaughter the innocent and burn Churches that you are obligated to protect the rights of. Surely you know better.
I am ashamed that Imams and knowledgeable Muslim scholars have not chastised and corrected their brothers in Nigeria.
When I think how often I have defended mainstream Islam I am embarrassed by this crime.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
NIce article about Bibles sold but not read
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071006/NEWS06/710060341/1023/NEWS
A very neat reminder of how the Bible used to provide essential societal structure and a sometimes humorous with a *sigh* about how little it is read today.
A very neat reminder of how the Bible used to provide essential societal structure and a sometimes humorous with a *sigh* about how little it is read today.
A Nice Story from Dodge City Catholics
Here’s a sweet conversion story. At last, one that is simple, peaceful and joyful, with love of children and the Lord, and not full of anger, meanness and angst. Thanks to the Dodge City Daily Globe for such a gentle and personal story.
http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/100607/loc_20071006002.shtml
Change of faith
Former DCHS teacher becomes principal at Sacred Heart
By Ashley Nietfeld
Dodge City Daily Globe
Only one year ago, if you had asked Laura Mead to imagine where she would be today, she probably wouldn't have said, "Principal at Sacred Heart School." And yet, that's where this former high school teacher has found herself.
"This opportunity has been so wonderful for me," said Mead. "I'm not so different from these kids in the classrooms learning their prayers."
When Mead and her husband first decided to send their son to Sacred Heart, Mead decided she wanted to learn more about the faith. Growing up in a Protestant household, she wasn't familiar with the saints and prayers that her son would soon be learning.
"I asked a friend if there was a class that I could take to learn more about the Catholic religion, and I was directed to the RCIA," said Mead. "I had no idea what the RCIA was, but I signed up and began taking classes once a week at the cathedral."
The RCIA, or Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, is an educational and spiritual process that eventually leads to baptism and confirmation into the Catholic church.
As the Christmas season drew to a head, the Rev. Ted Skalsky approached Mead about becoming a member of the church.
"All I knew at the time was that I didn't want to stop going to the class, but I'd never considered becoming Catholic before," Mead said.
After sitting down with her husband and son, Mead finally made the decision to convert.
"We decided that perhaps we were being called to do this," she said.
She received the Sacraments of Initiation during Easter Vigil and was surprised when Skalsky once again approached her, this time about a position that had become available at Sacred Heart.
Mead, who had taught social studies at Dodge City High School for the past 10 years, had just received her master's degree in education administration from Fort Hays State University.
Although she had wanted to move into administration, she hadn't considered a job at an elementary school, and a Catholic school at that.
"I told him that I didn't even have all the prayers memorized," remembered Mead. "He simply asked, 'Do you think you know them as well as first-graders?'" [This was so cute!!]
Only a few weeks into her new job, Mead has become a beloved member of the school. Receiving hugs from the kids has become the most gratifying part of her day, and she said she enjoys the family atmosphere that the school imbibes. [She sounds like a great lady.]
"There is a lot of parent involvement, and it is such a giving community," said Mead. "There are not only shared values, but a shared faith. You get to know families on an academic level as well as a spiritual level."
http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/100607/loc_20071006002.shtml
Change of faith
Former DCHS teacher becomes principal at Sacred Heart
By Ashley Nietfeld
Dodge City Daily Globe
Only one year ago, if you had asked Laura Mead to imagine where she would be today, she probably wouldn't have said, "Principal at Sacred Heart School." And yet, that's where this former high school teacher has found herself.
"This opportunity has been so wonderful for me," said Mead. "I'm not so different from these kids in the classrooms learning their prayers."
When Mead and her husband first decided to send their son to Sacred Heart, Mead decided she wanted to learn more about the faith. Growing up in a Protestant household, she wasn't familiar with the saints and prayers that her son would soon be learning.
"I asked a friend if there was a class that I could take to learn more about the Catholic religion, and I was directed to the RCIA," said Mead. "I had no idea what the RCIA was, but I signed up and began taking classes once a week at the cathedral."
The RCIA, or Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, is an educational and spiritual process that eventually leads to baptism and confirmation into the Catholic church.
As the Christmas season drew to a head, the Rev. Ted Skalsky approached Mead about becoming a member of the church.
"All I knew at the time was that I didn't want to stop going to the class, but I'd never considered becoming Catholic before," Mead said.
After sitting down with her husband and son, Mead finally made the decision to convert.
"We decided that perhaps we were being called to do this," she said.
She received the Sacraments of Initiation during Easter Vigil and was surprised when Skalsky once again approached her, this time about a position that had become available at Sacred Heart.
Mead, who had taught social studies at Dodge City High School for the past 10 years, had just received her master's degree in education administration from Fort Hays State University.
Although she had wanted to move into administration, she hadn't considered a job at an elementary school, and a Catholic school at that.
"I told him that I didn't even have all the prayers memorized," remembered Mead. "He simply asked, 'Do you think you know them as well as first-graders?'" [This was so cute!!]
Only a few weeks into her new job, Mead has become a beloved member of the school. Receiving hugs from the kids has become the most gratifying part of her day, and she said she enjoys the family atmosphere that the school imbibes. [She sounds like a great lady.]
"There is a lot of parent involvement, and it is such a giving community," said Mead. "There are not only shared values, but a shared faith. You get to know families on an academic level as well as a spiritual level."
Saturday, October 6, 2007
St. Paul's Thorn not really a mystery
People continue to speculate about the possible meanings of St. Paul’s “Thorn in the Flesh:”
And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. – 2 Corinthians 12.7
People keep missing the obvious and true explanation, so far as I see in the conversations I have glanced in on.
Paul said:
“I was zealous for the Law [in Greek this is translated as “zealous for God”] just as all of you are today. And I persecuted this Way even to the death, binding and committing to prisons both men and women, as the high priest can bear me witness, and all the elders. In fact I received letters from them to the brethren in Damascus, and I was on my way to arrest those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.” Acts 22: 4-5
Paul said:
“Now I exhort you, brethren, that you watch those who cause dissensions and scandals contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and avoid them. For such do not serve Christ our Lord but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattery deceive he hearts of the simple. For your submission to the faith has been published everywhere. I rejoice therefore over you. Yet I would have you wise as to what is good, and guileless as to what is evil. But the God of peace will speedily crush Satan under your feet.” (Romans 16: 17-20)
Paul said:
“For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized in Moses, in the cloud and in the sea. And all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink (for they drank from the spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ). Yet with most of them God was not well pleased, for ‘they were laid low in the desert.’” (1 Corinthians 10: 1-5)
Paul said:
“Now I myself, Paul, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ-I who to your face indeed am diffident when among you, but when absent am fearless toward you!” (2 Corinthians 10: 1)
Paul said:
“Behold, this is the third time that I am coming to you: “On the word of two or three witnesses every word shall be confirmed.” I have already warned, when present, and now in my absence I warn again those who sinned before, and all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare. Do you seek a proof of the Christ who speaks in me, who is not weak in your regard, nay, is powerful in you?” (2 Corinthians 13: 1-3)
Paul said:
“I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you to the grace of Christ, changing to another gospel; which is not another gospel, except in this respect that there are some who trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel to you other than that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema!” (Galatians 1: 6-8)
Paul said:
“Put on the armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the Principalities and the Powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness on high. Therefore take up the armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and stand in all things perfect. Stand, therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of justice, and having your feet shod with the readiness of the gospel of peace, in all things taking up the shield of faith, with which you may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. And take unto you the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, that is, the word of God.” (Ephesians 6: 10-17)
Paul said:
“He has destroyed death and brought to light life and incorruption by the gospel, of which I have been appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles. That is why also I am suffering these things; yet I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain that he is able to guard the trust committed to me against that day.” (2 Timothy 1:10-12)
***
OK, now think about those passages. So many people quote the touchy-feely passages from St. Paul that they forget that he is the chief among the whoop ass Apostles, exceeding even the zeal of the Old Testament Prophets. People miss one obvious fact. When he persecuted Christians, leading them even to death, without mercy, he was not an “employee” of the Temple or the military! He was a tent maker! What makes a tent maker take to the road and round up Christians in his self described zeal as a full time obsession and occupation? There is a clue in the first passage I quote where the Greek translation speaks of his zeal for God. St. Paul clearly felt an angry calling that he attributed to God, causing him to leave his family tent business and “take to the road” hunting down Christians. It is as if a real estate developer today abandoned his family business just to persecute and arrest Catholics.
So the thorn in St. Paul’s side was his angry zealotry that he felt was in response to God’s demands. When the resurrected Christ appeared to him and converted him, he “saw the light” and as he says, as I cite above, his meekness and gentleness comes from Christ. But if you read the passages that I have pointed out above, you will see that he is still the most blunt and militaristic of the Apostles or disciples. He is not militaristic in the sense of persecuting or harming non believers, or forced conversion. But he still has that spark (the thorn) of compulsion to shake people up and be very blunt about the consequences of sinful and heretical behavior. This thorn that he has that keeps him humble is the knowledge that for him is a certainty that God is in charge. Even the most faithful of believers have to rely on, well, faith. They do not actually KNOW. But St. Paul knows the power of God; he felt it (wrongly focused, as it turns out, which is why he says the thorn is Satan's) when he persecuted Christians, and then he experienced it first hand in his revelation on the road to Damascus. This “righteous anger on behalf of God” (my words and way of looking at him) are the thorn that both goads him and keeps him humble. A thorn does both. A thorn is a prod, and that is mostly how he means it. Remember that St. Paul was one tough cookie and he did not mean a thorn the way a wimp might mean it today, as a boo-boo in the paw that causes him to whimper. No, when St. Paul talks of a thorn he means a goad, a prod, but one that also reminds him that he may be the messenger but he is not the originator of the message.
And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. – 2 Corinthians 12.7
People keep missing the obvious and true explanation, so far as I see in the conversations I have glanced in on.
Paul said:
“I was zealous for the Law [in Greek this is translated as “zealous for God”] just as all of you are today. And I persecuted this Way even to the death, binding and committing to prisons both men and women, as the high priest can bear me witness, and all the elders. In fact I received letters from them to the brethren in Damascus, and I was on my way to arrest those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.” Acts 22: 4-5
Paul said:
“Now I exhort you, brethren, that you watch those who cause dissensions and scandals contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and avoid them. For such do not serve Christ our Lord but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattery deceive he hearts of the simple. For your submission to the faith has been published everywhere. I rejoice therefore over you. Yet I would have you wise as to what is good, and guileless as to what is evil. But the God of peace will speedily crush Satan under your feet.” (Romans 16: 17-20)
Paul said:
“For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized in Moses, in the cloud and in the sea. And all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink (for they drank from the spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ). Yet with most of them God was not well pleased, for ‘they were laid low in the desert.’” (1 Corinthians 10: 1-5)
Paul said:
“Now I myself, Paul, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ-I who to your face indeed am diffident when among you, but when absent am fearless toward you!” (2 Corinthians 10: 1)
Paul said:
“Behold, this is the third time that I am coming to you: “On the word of two or three witnesses every word shall be confirmed.” I have already warned, when present, and now in my absence I warn again those who sinned before, and all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare. Do you seek a proof of the Christ who speaks in me, who is not weak in your regard, nay, is powerful in you?” (2 Corinthians 13: 1-3)
Paul said:
“I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you to the grace of Christ, changing to another gospel; which is not another gospel, except in this respect that there are some who trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel to you other than that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema!” (Galatians 1: 6-8)
Paul said:
“Put on the armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the Principalities and the Powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness on high. Therefore take up the armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and stand in all things perfect. Stand, therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of justice, and having your feet shod with the readiness of the gospel of peace, in all things taking up the shield of faith, with which you may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. And take unto you the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, that is, the word of God.” (Ephesians 6: 10-17)
Paul said:
“He has destroyed death and brought to light life and incorruption by the gospel, of which I have been appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles. That is why also I am suffering these things; yet I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain that he is able to guard the trust committed to me against that day.” (2 Timothy 1:10-12)
***
OK, now think about those passages. So many people quote the touchy-feely passages from St. Paul that they forget that he is the chief among the whoop ass Apostles, exceeding even the zeal of the Old Testament Prophets. People miss one obvious fact. When he persecuted Christians, leading them even to death, without mercy, he was not an “employee” of the Temple or the military! He was a tent maker! What makes a tent maker take to the road and round up Christians in his self described zeal as a full time obsession and occupation? There is a clue in the first passage I quote where the Greek translation speaks of his zeal for God. St. Paul clearly felt an angry calling that he attributed to God, causing him to leave his family tent business and “take to the road” hunting down Christians. It is as if a real estate developer today abandoned his family business just to persecute and arrest Catholics.
So the thorn in St. Paul’s side was his angry zealotry that he felt was in response to God’s demands. When the resurrected Christ appeared to him and converted him, he “saw the light” and as he says, as I cite above, his meekness and gentleness comes from Christ. But if you read the passages that I have pointed out above, you will see that he is still the most blunt and militaristic of the Apostles or disciples. He is not militaristic in the sense of persecuting or harming non believers, or forced conversion. But he still has that spark (the thorn) of compulsion to shake people up and be very blunt about the consequences of sinful and heretical behavior. This thorn that he has that keeps him humble is the knowledge that for him is a certainty that God is in charge. Even the most faithful of believers have to rely on, well, faith. They do not actually KNOW. But St. Paul knows the power of God; he felt it (wrongly focused, as it turns out, which is why he says the thorn is Satan's) when he persecuted Christians, and then he experienced it first hand in his revelation on the road to Damascus. This “righteous anger on behalf of God” (my words and way of looking at him) are the thorn that both goads him and keeps him humble. A thorn does both. A thorn is a prod, and that is mostly how he means it. Remember that St. Paul was one tough cookie and he did not mean a thorn the way a wimp might mean it today, as a boo-boo in the paw that causes him to whimper. No, when St. Paul talks of a thorn he means a goad, a prod, but one that also reminds him that he may be the messenger but he is not the originator of the message.
Bible Reading: Jeremia
Jeremia 29: 11-15
For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for woe!
Plans to give you a future full of hope.
When you call me, when you go to pray to me, I will listen to you.
When you look for me, you will find me.
Yes, when you seek me with all your heart,
You will find me with you, says the Lord,
And I will change your lot;
I will gather you together from all the nations and all the places to which I have banished you, says the Lord,
And I will bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.
***
(But people have to call for the Lord, pray to the Lord, look for the Lord, and seek the Lord with “all your heart.” Not exploit and profane.)
For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for woe!
Plans to give you a future full of hope.
When you call me, when you go to pray to me, I will listen to you.
When you look for me, you will find me.
Yes, when you seek me with all your heart,
You will find me with you, says the Lord,
And I will change your lot;
I will gather you together from all the nations and all the places to which I have banished you, says the Lord,
And I will bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.
***
(But people have to call for the Lord, pray to the Lord, look for the Lord, and seek the Lord with “all your heart.” Not exploit and profane.)
Oral Roberts family phone not working
From AOL news:
Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal. Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors' expense, including numerous home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter's senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay. She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as "underage males." At a chapel service this week on the 5,300-student campus known for its 60-foot-tall bronze sculpture of praying hands, Roberts said God told him: "We live in a litigious society. Anyone can get mad and file a lawsuit against another person whether they have a legitimate case or not. This lawsuit ... is about intimidation, blackmail and extortion."
***
I have always thought that Roberts et al mistakenly installed a phone line in their bathroom when they think they are getting messages from God. I ask you, does that sound like God? You must be kidding me.
I think they've been on a bathroom party line with 1-666- S-A-T-A-N-J-O-K-E-S-W-I-T-U
Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal. Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors' expense, including numerous home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter's senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay. She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as "underage males." At a chapel service this week on the 5,300-student campus known for its 60-foot-tall bronze sculpture of praying hands, Roberts said God told him: "We live in a litigious society. Anyone can get mad and file a lawsuit against another person whether they have a legitimate case or not. This lawsuit ... is about intimidation, blackmail and extortion."
***
I have always thought that Roberts et al mistakenly installed a phone line in their bathroom when they think they are getting messages from God. I ask you, does that sound like God? You must be kidding me.
I think they've been on a bathroom party line with 1-666- S-A-T-A-N-J-O-K-E-S-W-I-T-U
I have an unpleasant revelation and insight
After listening to the news yesterday I had a sudden moment of clarity. I thought about it all evening and fumed about it instead of falling asleep when I went to bed later. I realized that a group of females of a certain ethnic group have had a totally unjustified beef against me for, as far as I can figure it, over twenty five years.
The reason it never dawned on me before is because there is no “incident” that triggered this imaginary beef, plus I’ve had warm relationships with females of this group throughout that time. It never occurred to me before yesterday, but thinking back on it, I can now trace an almost unbroken line of representatives of this female ethnic group that have contrived conflict with me. I realize now that they’ve done quite a bit of harm to me, but no where near the harm they have done to themselves and their sisters.
The first woman I ever comforted for having had a miscarriage was from this group. My first executive secretary was from this group and I adored her. I watched my neighbor raise two beautiful girls from childhood through college and all three of them are from this group. I’ve opposed the violence and demeaning of this group for decades, never dreaming that some of them were advocating that I myself should be a victim of violence and demeaning.
It never occurred to me that there would be a strand of surly faced women who had some sort of imaginary beef against me running through my life. It is odd because I took a severe job hit defending a male from this ethnic group who worked for me (he punched out a bigot who rejoiced in the King assassination, and he had, shall we say, a very serious demeanor which was unpleasing to the white mandarins who wanted him to “smile more.”) Because I would not demark him on his performance review I ultimately had to leave that job before I was vested. And looking back, sure enough, there was a female contriving a beef with me at the same time. It never ever occurred to me.
Well, now it has occurred to me and mark my words, faith has been broken and I’ll never fully trust a person from this grouping again. I’ll continue to be outraged at the terrible treatment that normal average non-beefing members of this group receive, just as I have all of my adult life. But I don’t think any of them can ever be personally close to me. It’s a shame because I have had a very warm heart for all of them, which was what blinded me to seeing what was happening. Whenever I encountered a beef I could not explain, I always thought it was a fluke of the individual. I did not know that I was the subject of targeted harassment, endangerment and libel by them. It’s outrageous, unbelievable, and hurtful to the extreme, because of its incredible unfairness. You’ll never know what my friendship could have been like.
The reason it never dawned on me before is because there is no “incident” that triggered this imaginary beef, plus I’ve had warm relationships with females of this group throughout that time. It never occurred to me before yesterday, but thinking back on it, I can now trace an almost unbroken line of representatives of this female ethnic group that have contrived conflict with me. I realize now that they’ve done quite a bit of harm to me, but no where near the harm they have done to themselves and their sisters.
The first woman I ever comforted for having had a miscarriage was from this group. My first executive secretary was from this group and I adored her. I watched my neighbor raise two beautiful girls from childhood through college and all three of them are from this group. I’ve opposed the violence and demeaning of this group for decades, never dreaming that some of them were advocating that I myself should be a victim of violence and demeaning.
It never occurred to me that there would be a strand of surly faced women who had some sort of imaginary beef against me running through my life. It is odd because I took a severe job hit defending a male from this ethnic group who worked for me (he punched out a bigot who rejoiced in the King assassination, and he had, shall we say, a very serious demeanor which was unpleasing to the white mandarins who wanted him to “smile more.”) Because I would not demark him on his performance review I ultimately had to leave that job before I was vested. And looking back, sure enough, there was a female contriving a beef with me at the same time. It never ever occurred to me.
Well, now it has occurred to me and mark my words, faith has been broken and I’ll never fully trust a person from this grouping again. I’ll continue to be outraged at the terrible treatment that normal average non-beefing members of this group receive, just as I have all of my adult life. But I don’t think any of them can ever be personally close to me. It’s a shame because I have had a very warm heart for all of them, which was what blinded me to seeing what was happening. Whenever I encountered a beef I could not explain, I always thought it was a fluke of the individual. I did not know that I was the subject of targeted harassment, endangerment and libel by them. It’s outrageous, unbelievable, and hurtful to the extreme, because of its incredible unfairness. You’ll never know what my friendship could have been like.
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