Following is an essay written August 17, 2006 during a very trying time in my life. Reading it now, I can sense the frustration, fear, and anger.
Suppose that you are a traveler embarking on a journey to the other side of a
mountain, and up ahead lies a trail. While it may seem that this trail is the only path to
your destination, your guide informs you that it is filled with precarious dangers, ones
that he is not willing to undertake. In his well-traveled experience he then says that not
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