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Why can’t I be selfish as other people can? If I could ditch the bitterness inside I could become a second Mother Teresa. That would be quite a joke-my name and the “M” word put together. I, the most unmotherly of all women.

To be gracious means to accept people as they are-as evil and traitorous as they are, as unremorseful and unforgiving as they are, as small and self-delusional as they are. There is no kindness without humbleness.