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LadyHawkAZ

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7. It's usually easier up close and personal

Reply to seabeyond (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 08:00 PM

Dec 2011

to overlook things that we find repellent from a distance.

My best friend is a Mormon conservative. We both have to practice extreme tolerance. I find I can be accepting of her where I cannot be with strangers who are equally religious and equally conservative- two things I have little patience for. Easy to understand her because I love her, harder to understand the Jane Doe Mormon shepherding eight small, rowdy children through the mall.

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engendering equality [View all] seabeyond Dec 2011 OP

"[tolerance] is a rare flower, that grows in few places LadyHawkAZ Dec 2011 #1

regardless of where a woman is in life and the choices she makes seabeyond Dec 2011 #2

It's usually easier up close and personal LadyHawkAZ Dec 2011 #7

Thank you for giving me something to think about MadrasT Dec 2011 #3

it really connected with me, too. seabeyond Dec 2011 #4

You're not alone LadyHawkAZ Dec 2011 #6

Taking Names TomaMcCormick Dec 2011 #5