The Pale-Faced Lie

by David Crow

You should never respond to unkindness with more of the same. It makes you lesser. Let’s go home and do better.”

“Be careful whenever everything is given to you,” Mr. Ashcroft said. “Because then you’ll be totally beholden to your masters.”

“You can’t change your childhood, but you can let it go,”

Then it came to me. The only way to be free was to forgive them—and forgive myself.