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Bemused, I mentioned this on another thread but Rudd may just win. Abbott is wanting him to call an early election, which has to be 3 August or later. I am getting worried as Abbott may not win as people must have short memories of how hated Rudd was just 3 years ago. My concern is this Royal Commission and the Prime Minister can have a lot of influence and my guess is Abbott is more sincere about it. Full stop.

I'm all alone
Here on this site
All the rest
Have long said "good night"

And so I ponder
As I'm apt to do
What of the last two years
Is my review

The tears, the fears
Laughs more than a few
Friends here to stay
And some shot through

Gone the nightmares
The same bad dream
Replaced with much better
Nocturnal scene

No family to love me
There nothings changed
For it came with strings
By others rearranged

Finally free
To live as not before
No fears of knocks
Upon the door

No more secrets
It's all out for all to see
The good, the bad
And downright ugly

Baggage gone
Living free
And time for bed
Goodnight from me

It's been a good journey, Bemused.
And we're not thru yet!

What is the Fanda Eagles Policy on Trade ins?

And that was a sweet goodnight poem. We all have certainly come a long way ... together in spirit, though separated by many miles ...

Oh believe me, I would trade in my family. Harsh sounding, but that's the way the cookie crumbles in this sorry mess.

My family had to make a choice, we all did. When it became known that there had been widespread sexual abuse in NTMs boarding schools, there were two options, do nothing or to make an effort to make sure the truth came out and that this never happened again.

Unless anyone is totally thick, I think my position is really clear. My father is on the opposite side of the equation, still stating that nothing happened, there was no child abuse, it is all a fantasy and hysteria. And the rest of my family had to choose between the two of us or to be more precise, live and see the truth or just exist doing what they were told.

Oh yes we've had my sister on here, posting about getting together, having breakfast. So what happens, I get a deputation from her husband, who suddenly spouts the same phrases as my father. No contact from my sister at all.

And now good old Bemused has been proved right, the abuse never stopped, it is still going on, despite the fancy words and changes in policy.

Oh yes we have IHART, but frankly I don't have a lot of faith in a group who one of their team writes to me and can't even get my name right, the atrocious spelling I'll excuse, because mine is not perfect. Initially we had GRACE and I suspect NTM was of the opinion that their report would show a few misguided men and that would be that. But it went far beyond that, it went right to evidence being shredded by the top at Sanford. Damn uncomfortable that and where was God who was supposed to be protecting the mission from all this anyway. So dismiss GRACE and invent IHART, call it independent and hope it doesn't uncover to much. In the meantime keep saying over and over that the abuse figures aren't as bad as in modern secular society. Oh God in heaven, that's really insulting, the abuse figures should be zero!!!!!!

No I won't trade me family in, they are my problem to deal with and no one else deserves to have them inflicted upon them. We all had hard choices to make and they made the wrong one!

Bemused "Narrow is the way and few find it." Thankfully you found the way to living, as have many who comment often.