Is it healthy, sometimes, to hate? I was sitting with Mom in Matumi by the fire and Mike was with us and Mike was telling us how he forgave his stepmother while she was dying and he felt liberated by it. While she died he prayed and in praying and forgiving he was released. At this point, Mom broke in: 'Do you think I forgive the Nazis for what they did to my grandmother? Do you think I forgive the people who jailed me and who jailed our friends?' Very angry now, she said. 'Sometimes it's healthy to hate.' And she turned to me and asked. 'What do you think love?' And she waited, a little apprehensively, for my answer. Would I support her? Now Mike and I have a close relationship. He has taught me so much over the course of my life, though our meetings have been few and far between. But I looked at Mom and said: 'Yes, Mom, I agree with you, sometimes it is healthy to hate.' And since then I have been thinking about what she
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