CarrollBlog 9.7

blog entry from 9/17/2007 (for JH, who asked for it):

I know someone who had a terrible childhood. Not just bad, or BAD, but genuinely terrible. The ingredients of a domestic horror novel, or the worst kind of OLIVER TWIST/Charles Dickens tale of deprivation and woe. Yet this person grew up to be not only a solid citizen, but a gem-- one of the few people I know who is truly special in many ways. Is their specialness a result of having had those bad experiences when they were young but...