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The Children Are the First To Understand

The selfish human will either have to purposefully look like poison ivy or poison sumac which has betrayed a lot of people or emit a feeling of a really nasty plant that has scratched, penetrated,or thorned many in another unpleasant way. Otherwise, she will be trusted into another wonderful family, spreading her poison in the most angry of ways. The children are the first to understand. They expose the monster, but are not believed at first, as humans have a natural tendency to want to nurture and rescue their she-monsters.

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Date: 1/2/2019 6:08:00 PM
It's sad but some do really act out in ways that do more harm than good. In a perfect world, some could help these kids but, this world is not anywhere near perfect and neither are we humans.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/3/2019 12:12:00 AM
True, but I have noticed the children are really difficult to fool. They expose the real "self" much quicker than adults can.

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