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Just realised, it is now just over a year since the last conversation I had with my father. So putting myself on the couch and sitting in the shrinks chair (split personality allows this ), how do I feel?

O.k. actually, perhaps a little frustrated that I hadn't been able to confront him decades ago about the child abuse scandal in NTM and thereby move on, but I wasn't aware of the sheer magnitude of the unfolding scandal. But on the positive side, the manipulation of my brain has stopped and I can see a lot more clearly what was the truth of my childhood and what was fiction.
On one hand I am sorry that others have had horrendous childhoods within NTM, but there is also some comfort that mine was not just an isolated experience.

So where to from here? Who knows, it is not my move next. But realistically I can envisage no reconciliation, while we find ourselves on opposite sides of the child abuse issue.

It's been quite a year.

Bemused I know you don't like hugs but the idea won't touch you. So the idea behind the hug is I'm sorry and I hurt with you. So here is an idea hug.

Hugs in Wonderland are so different from other kinds of hugs.
There is absolutely no malice involved-------
OOPS!
When they are from the right people.
I just got myself in a fix.
Let's take the hug out of Wonderland
and leave it on the forums.

Hugs on the forums are so different from other kinds of hugs.

That book has LOTS to explain!

Long Live Bemused!

There is a nasty e-mail virus going round down here. It is replicating itself through e-mail address lists.
Bemused got a little suspicious when long lost acquaintences suddenly got in contact.
Moral of story, be careful.

And of course the big story is the resignation/retirement of the Pope. Breaking with centuries of tradition he has decided he is not in good enough health to continue. A noble call me thinks.

Ummmm, no Bemused won't be putting his cap in the ring for the Papacy although Sympathetic Agnostic Ecumenical Pope from Downunder (SAPED for short) does have an interesting ring to it.

The virus is here as well. I hope this Pope news doesn't affect the Royal Commission, shouldn't but I seem so negative anymore. Cardianal Peel might be in the candidates, not real happy with his "talk" on priest sexual abuse. Full stop.

Cardinal Peel is in considerable hot water and assuming Tony Abbott wins the upcoming election is going to be in even hotter water.
Cardinal Peel is on record defending paedophiles, Tony Abbott is on record as pushing for the prosecution of paedophiles no matter who or where they are.
I very much doubt there will be any delay in the Royal Commission of Inquiry going ahead, due to the Popes resignation, but it will put it back in the news again, which is good .