When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.
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How 14 Friends From the Vietnam War Lost and Found One Another Again
By Julie Beck — 2019
"It was a lot more than just cavalry guys getting together. We really became true family."
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