I'm glad that she has reconnected with her family and things are all hunky-dory for her now, but I feel as though we T-people are almost exactly where she was 31 years ago.

I have seen progress in the past couple of decades, but honestly, not much. Unlike the author, I can't find it in myself to forgive Anita or the hatemongers who used her.

I can't even forgive my own parents.

I can dismiss it, as in, "That's the past, and you can't change what happened then." I can reject the hatred they tried to teach me.

Those things I can do, but honestly, forgiveness is not in my heart, not for that, ever.

The people who wish horrible things on me, I wish the same upon them.

I suppose the "An eye for an eye" part stuck...

I know, I know, as a good atheist/sorta buddhist/humanist type person(and that is about the loosest description I could come up with) I should be better than that, I should rise above my anger.

Sorry, not happening, at least not anytime soon.

Abby