Open Letter To A Friend That's Hurting

Dear Christine,

You are a strong-willed person and that is one of the greatest things I like about you. It is an attribute that makes you a wonderful friend and a wonderful competitor.

You believe in things greater than yourself and for that you will always run into others that treat you unkindly, dishonestly, and even maliciously at times.

I don't know their motives or why they behave as they do toward you. They will talk the talk of "tolerance" and yet treat you very coldly and with a rage of intolerance.

You are a very loving person, Christine, and I know I myself have treated you at times with something less than love. For that I, I'm sure you know, am sorry.