There was a time when I used to believe the all-too-familiar movie line, "There is a bit of goodness in everyone." I believed it heart and soul, too. I expected good out of everyone, and that if ever they did wrong, they would eventually snap out of it and apologize to the people they wronged and make right the things they disturbed. I bit that -- hook, line and the freaking fisherman with it. But that was a looong time ago.

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