I fear our society is too damaged to repair

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26. What you say is wonderful...but it is a fairytale...things were never really like that.

I remember going to a water park in Virginia in the 80's where despite the law they wouldn't let people with dark skin in...my racist old aunt said it was good I was a blonde because with my tan they would let me in haha... yeah right the nasty old bag.

I remember when my mother's friend was beaten by her husband and the cops wouldn't even come.

I remember learning what it meant to die because my older sister's friends lost their brothers in Vietnam

I remember being a complete brat to my parents and not respectful at all.

I remember having a boss put his hands down my pants and when I complained, I was told he was a producer and I was a secretary (one of the reasons I went back to college) and I would be fired if I couldn't "get along".

I remember being raped and spending a couple of weeks in the hospital because I was pretty badly injured and my parents told their friends I was in a car accident. There was no prosecution because I went to a bar with my girlfriends. Just asking for it don't you know

I remember my Analytical Chemistry professor telling me I should drop his class as there were men with families who needed my seat. At the time I was a single mother supporting myself and going to school.

You get the picture. There has never been a utopia and there never will be. But we must strive to improve our situations and that of others.