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Neither had tools to approach the world to find peace or joy.
It makes you so angry at your abuser, the one that you’re too afraid to confront, so you confront the easiest target. Those you can.
There is an emotional abandonment that comes with poverty and being Black. The weight of generational trauma and having to fight for your basic needs doesn’t leave room for anything else.
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past.
Memory is powerful. Powerful hardships as well as powerful successes make up a life fully lived . . . my life. My dearest joy is the joyful
