Thank you for this! It is incredibly familiar to me. Similar childhood memories with the only difference being the driving forces of the perpetrators helped me realize that the intensity of the long-ago pain was equal in every respect to the intensity of the now joy of this incredibly different life. Not getting all fluffy, just finding as I keep going that balance does out in all things. I'm so pleased for you that you made it to the other side of the teeter-totter, Wil. So did I. It's better here.