Finally.  I am starting to thaw.  I skipped over a lot of stuff in my mission to get things where they are “supposed” to be without realizing all of the sacrifices I was making.  It occurred to me, yesterday, after a remark he made after I asked him if he knew why I was taking this all so well.  Isn’t there something wrong with that?  In the interest of smoothing the way, I’ve put myself on the back burner, which means that I am still, at heart, after all these years of resistance and theoretically, rehabilitation, an enabler.

“If you think you see a shortcut on the path to wholeness, it is a mirage.” – LLDeMerle