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"I've loved and sorrowed, despaired
and survived.
I've bumped head-on into my own humanity time after time.
Getting in touch with that humanity wasn't an easy thing for me.
Nor is it for any of us who were raised to excel,
to make contributions to the world, to rise above anger and jealousy
and all of those other things that none of us ever rise above.
I don't write about rising above; I write about going through.
In the going through comes the victory--or at least the survival.
I've survived because of prayer, which I believe in,
and therapy, which I also believe in,
and love--which I believe in most of all."
--Pat Stribling
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