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Walk a Mile in My Shoes
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Author:  brie [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Walk a Mile in My Shoes
To think that only one person in the world loves you is a hard thing to accept.

To be ripped away from that person and left in an unloving 'family' is harsh and cruel.

To be cast aside by that family like some old shoes, is both horrible and sadly liberating.

For that one person you love to die is the most lonely and heart-breaking thing a person can go through.

For that persons last words to you to be erased forever in a childish attempt at revenge makes it feel like the whole world is against you.

For you to keep your notoriously fiery temper when this happens, and for no one to praise you for doing so is extremely disheartening.

To lead a dull life you never wanted does nothing but enhance your feeling of self-loathing.

For you to put in danger the child of the one person you still care for, is unbelievably tragic, making you view yourself as the lowest of scum.

To remove yourself from a lifestyle where this can ever be repeated, and for people to just judge you disparagingly for your efforts to make them happy if not yourself, is hardly something to encourage your belief of your self-worth.

To be betrayed by the woman who became your closest friend, after you befriended and helped her for years of your life...

And then after everything, to be judged by all and sundry, as bitter and callous, a bit of a hard character, how would you react?

Is it really my fault, that I slowly became the bitter, cynical, withdrawn person they all made me out to be?

Walk a mile in my shoes, and tell me you would have done any better?
Author:  Alison H [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:45 pm ]
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EBD really did have it in for her, didn't she?

But she did end up happy in the end :D .
Author:  Lesley [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:54 pm ]
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Poor Grizel.


Thanks brie.
Author:  Elbee [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:55 pm ]
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That was very apt. Thanks Brie.
Author:  linda [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:24 am ]
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That was very sad. Poor Grizel

Thanks Brie
Author:  keren [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:17 pm ]
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I see we are all such experts we guessed who you were writing about!

This is put so emphatically.

what did you refer to here?

"To be betrayed by the woman who became your closest friend, after you befriended and helped her for years of your life"
Author:  JackieP [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:46 pm ]
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That would be Deira, wouldn't it - when she married the man Grizel was attracted to?

But very poignant, Thanks brie.

JackieP
Author:  Fatima [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:53 pm ]
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Poor Grizel. Put like that it sounds dreadful.

Thanks Brie.
Author:  Billie [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:25 pm ]
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Poor Grizel. She does have a tough time, doesn't she?
Well done Brie.
Author:  leahbelle [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:52 pm ]
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Grizel did have things tough. I'm just rereading Head Girl and she does handle Deira very well. I think I might have killed her for burning that letter.

Thanks, brie.
Author:  Rosalin [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:46 pm ]
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Grizel never gets the credit for what she does achieve :cry:

Thanks brie.
Author:  Tara [ Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:06 pm ]
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Very thought-provoking and poignant, Brie - thank you.

Yes, I think I'd have killed Deira for burning that letter, too, though of course she didn't mean to, she didn't know it was inside the book (which is no excuse ...)
Author:  Smile :) [ Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:45 pm ]
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Very thought-provoking, thanks brie.
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