Don't make exuses for nasty people. Putting a flower in an asshole doesn't make it a vase.
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Timely advice. An old friend has popped into my life again and is such an old curmudgeon complaining about everyone and everything. I say "lighten up" and "show some grace" but he just keeps at it. I don't make any excuses for him, but if I did, this advice will help. 
Julie808
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Oct 25, 2021
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My youthful idealism — instead of winding down to realism during my teens as it does for most people — was going strong into my fifties. I swung like a pendulum between idealism and cynicism, pausing in realism for only moments.
I ascribed it to growing up in an authoritarian Catholic and occasionally violent home — physical violence from my father and emotional violence from my mother.
Throwing them and their religion out of my life and finishing college helped.
....just try to understand them......... And say that you have found a better vase.
Mcflewster
Level 8
Oct 24, 2021
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Beautiful! I'm stealing this...thanks!
LucyLoohoo
Level 9
Oct 24, 2021
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I stole it from a Portuguese friend
@Beowulfsfriend Hmmm...does that make you a ''fence?"
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