0: Paragraph 2 Many of the things I've said here are unflattering to
someone, but nothing here is actionable defamation, partly because what
I've said is true and partly because it's already been published in
transcripts of in-court testimony that are public records. Nobody put
me up to writing this, and I can't imagine very many people could be
happy that I have, but I wanted the catharsis of packaging these
memories into a bundle so I can walk away from it and get on with my
life.
0: Paragraph 3 Nearly thirty years ago a mentor said to me, "There
are two kinds of people in the world: those who get ulcers and those who
give them to others., Which do you want to be?" It took me some years
to master the technique, but now I usually manage to get aggravations
out of my system instead of brooding on them. Oysters can turn their
irritants into pearls, and I'd like to salvage some pearls of wisdom
from mine.
0: Paragraph 4 Many of my attitudes were shaped by my mother's
sister. My mother's abuse made any healthy relationship between us
impossible, so for about ten years from my parents' divorce when I was
thirteen, Aunt Ruth was in many ways my real parent. She was amoral and
apolitical and a lot like "Auntie Mame," and she taught me to evaluate
things for myself and to measure them against my own standards and
experience.
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