It wasn’t a matter of confession, penance, and absolution, like the priests offered. It was something else… — Orson Scott Card
It wasn’t a matter of confession, penance, and absolution, like the priests offered. It was something else entirely. Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, now she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.
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