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forgiveness

by @alyssa-underwood

#*forgiveness not by epiphany or stealth but slow dawning through pain's night thorny ever-conscious struggle for love which suddenly breaks on wings of light*#
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Nov 1, 2015
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"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."  

~ Khaled Hosseini

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