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| Kathy (center) my brother Bob & wife Linda |
There
is first childhood innocence. It must be protected by parents from
the cruelty of the world. Next comes experience that introduces one
to the adult life and all of its hard lessons and themes. Next comes
the innocence that follows experience in which one feels again for
those one meets the fondness one had for playmates. There is a
renewed belief in goodness, but it is now not tentative for it comes
with the assurance that love is stronger than the games people play
while navigating experience. This second innocence shares in a sense
the blessedness of heaven. It is a relief to find one's motives less
complex and mixed than one once thought. My wife Kathy was key to
moving me past experience towards this second innocence. This is the
major reason my life is divided into two parts—the sometimes gray
days before I met her and the sunny days afterwards.
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